Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story Rimer Alexandra
Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story Rimer Alexandra Seduced by the Light is the first and only biography of Mina Miller Edison, the wife of Thomas Edison, the woman who created and…
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Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story Rimer Alexandra
Seduced by the Light is the first and only biography of Mina Miller Edison, the wife of Thomas Edison, the woman who created and shaped the myth of one of the most seminal figures in America's history. Exhaustively researched by author Alexandra Rimer, this account draws on unprecedented access to Edison family diaries, memoirs, and letters to look below the surface of the Edison family during the Gilded Age from the little-known perspective of this female protagonist. The Thomas Edison we think we know was essentially created by Mina Miller Edison.
What Mina did not know at the time was that Edison was a terrible father, completely neglecting his children and, ultimately, Mina herself. Following his first wife's death, Thomas Edison went in search of the next mother to his children and chose a wealthy twenty-year-old socialite from Ohio who was nineteen years his junior. Absorbed in