Diana of the Dunes
Subtitle: the true story of Alice Gray
By: Janet Zenke Edwards
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781596299771
Description: In the fall of 1915, Alice Gray traded her life in Chicago for a solitary journey in the remote sand hills of northwest Indiana along Lake Michigan. Her audacity so bewitched reporters and a curious public that she became a legend in her own time-- "Diana of the Dunes."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ghost story : "Diana of the Dunes"; title: Chicago childhood; title: Ambrose and Sallie Gray; title: Phi Beta Kappa; title: From the USNO to Germany; title: Leaving Chicago; title: Surfacing in the Dunes; title: Driftwood; title: "Diana of the Dunes"; title: Fullerton Hall; title: Paul Wilson : "Caveman"; title: Murder in the Dunes; title: A case of libel; title: In the end; title: Afterword; title: Appendices: Siblings; Paul Wilson, after "Diana"; Alice's diary; title: excerpts; title: Newspaper article by Alice Gray; title: "Chicago's Kinsland."