Deep roots, broken branches: a history and memoir

Preface

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Discovering Mary Daniel

1. The Welsh roots of an American Civil War love story

2. Class matters in the Gilded Age

3. Building a family dynasty

4. The misfit and the millionaires

5. Mary's great rebellion

6. Schooled by life

7. Motherhood gone awry

8. "A lonesome mother's futile hobby"

9. My mother's secrets

10. Lifting the curtain of shame and guilt

11. Children unattended

12. Islands of refuge

13. My father's story

14. My grandmother's rage and sorrow

Epilogue: Memories and reflections

Notes

Bibliography

Index.