32 Trance Lecturers in Antebellum America
In 1857 Annie Denton Cridge lost her first child within months of his birth. “My darling is gone! the fond great hope of my life! . . . How bitter the separation!” mourned the twenty-three-year-old socialist and woman’s rights advocate. She poured out her grief in the pages of theVanguard, the newspaper she published with her husband in Dayton, Ohio. Three obituaries recounted the brief life and lamented death of little Denton Cridge. According to the longest tribute, authored by the grieving mother, the conditions that separated Cridge from her baby, however bitter, were short-lived. During Denton’s final moments
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