Author:
Seaver, James E. (James Everett), 1787-1827.
Imprint:New York : The American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, 1942.
Description[a]-p, [q]-x,xv, [17]-459 p. : front., illus., plates (1 double) ports., 2 maps (1 double) facsims. ; 21 cm.
Note:"...presenting the first edition literally restored, together with chapters added to later editions by Ebenezer Mix, Lewis Henry Morgan...William Clement Bryant and William Pryor Letchworth...enlarged with historical and archaeological memoranda and critical notes by modern authorities.
Note:On spine: The life of Mary Jemison.
Note:First edition, 1824.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography of the life of Mary Jemison, by C.D. Vail, revised by Elmer Adler for the 1925 edition and by E.H. Hall for the 1932 edition: p. 274-298. "Tabulation of editions of 'The life of Mary Jemison': fold. tab. mounted on p. 299.
Note:"Jemison's story became one of the most popular captivity narratives in U.S. history, going into over twenty editions in its first hundred years. The work was first published by James E. Seaver as A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (1824). Seaver met with Jemison for three days in November 1823. Although the book that resulted is hardly a word-for-word rendering of Jemison and includes additions and florid language that are hardly in the style of a bilingual frontier woman, it is, however, the best account we have of Jemison's life." -- American National Biography
