02803cam a2200313 i 4500 656424293 TxAuBib 20230602120000.0 220906s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2022042913 9781493069415 HRD 29.95 1493069411 HRD 29.95 TxAuBib rda Rimer, Alexandra, 1970-, author Seduced by the light. Seduced by the light [BOOK] : the Mina Miller Edison story / Alexandra Rimer. Essex, Connecticut : Lyons Press, 2023. x, 342 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Secrets and Courtships -- Cost of Consent -- A Girl Born to Luck -- Becoming Mrs. Edison -- An Arduous Adjustment -- Inability to Bond -- If You Want to Succeed, Get Some Enemies -- Out of Sight, Out of Mind -- Disturbances -- Isolation -- Bury Thy Sorrow-- Hiding from the Press -- Between Two Fires -- Concealing the Truth -- Domestic Life in the Trenches -- Wrestling with the Remaining Years -- Epilogue: After Edison -- Postscript: The Children of Thomas Edison. 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. The Thomas Edison we think we know was essentially created by Mina Miller Edison. 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. 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. What Mina did not know at the time was that Edison was a terrible father, completely neglecting his children and, ultimately, Mina herself. Absorbed in his work, he only interacted with his family at dinner, and sometimes not even then. The result was a dysfunctional family overseen by a saintly matriarch who went to great lengths to protect Edison’s reputation as well as that of his wayward children. Provided by publisher. 20230602. Edison, Mina Miller 1865-1947. Edison, Mina Miller 1865-1947. Marriage. Edison, Thomas A (Thomas Alva) 1847-1931 Family. West Orange (N.J) Biography.