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Abbott, “Seven Wives and Seven Prisons: or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac.” 1870.

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Abbott, "Seven Wives and Seven Prisons: or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac." 1870.


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Mark C. Wallace

Abbott, L. A. Seven Wives and Seven Prisons: or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac, 1870. 205 pp.

The possibly-fictional account of a man who married seven different women and wound up in prison seven times. Frontispiece depicts “My first and worst wife.” An unconventional and sometimes humorous autobiography.

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