Title: Good medicine and good music
Subtitle: a biography of Mrs. Joe Person, patent remedy entrepreneur and musician, including the complete text of her 1903 autobiography
First published: 2009
Description: "Alice Morgan Person was a North Carolinian. Born wealthy and married well, she fell into hardship after the Civil War but overcame by selling patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangements of folk tunes. Presented here is her complete and previously unpublished autobiography. In addition, her story is told through new research and first-hand accounts"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biography, Social life and customs, Women folk musicians, History and criticism, Folk musicians, Patent medicines, Folk music, Businesswomen, History, Businesswomen, biography, Inventors, Women, united states, biography, Nonprescription Drugs, History, 19th Century, History, 20th Century, Music
Places: North Carolina
People: Alice Morgan Person (1840-1913)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: CT275.P496 H87 2009