Infelicia (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Adah Isaacs Menken

9780265643617: Infelicia (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 0265643619 ISBN 13: 9780265643617

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Infelicia

Adah returned to New Orleans with the intention of giving up the stage and devoting her attention to liter ature. She began by studying assiduously the German language and reading the classic authors, supporting her self, meanwhile, by teaching French and Latin in a young ladies' seminary, and by contributing to the New Orleans papers. A volume of poems which she published at about this time met with considerable popular favor.

But her restless spirit could not find peace. She te turned to Texas, and at Galveston, on the 3d of April, 1856, she married Alexander Isaac Menken, a musician. Her husband was a Jew, and she herself adopted his faith, changing her name from Adelaide to Adah.

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