Voices From a Trunk: The Lost Lives of the Quaker Eddisons 1805-1867

A chance discovery of a trunk of documents by author Sara Woodall opened up a window onto the rapidly expanding cities of Leeds and London in the nineteenth century. Cholera epidemics, Luddite disruptions, hopeless medical interventions, the birth of the railways, a discovery of a murder, the mystery of an ancestor believed to be the unknown great-great grandfather of renowned inventor Thomas Alva Edison, an unsettling great Quaker bank crash and travel in America newly recovering from the Civil War - all were intertwined with the painful life of Leeds lawyer Edwin Eddison.

• Format: 6" x 9" perfect bound paperback, color cover and interior on permanent paper, printed in the United States

  Pages 294, including Acknowledgments, Family Tree, Prologue, twenty chapters of text, Bibliography, Index and About the Author.

  Illustrations: 173, including period photographs, engravings, newspaper images, etchings and Eddison/Edison family trees

  ISBN 13: 978-1-939995-16-2

  Library of Congress Number: 2016031061