author

L. A. Abbott

b. 1813

Best known for the wildly titled memoir Seven Wives and Seven Prisons, this 19th-century writer left behind a strange, candid account of marriage, trouble, and survival. Little is firmly documented about the person behind the name, which only adds to the book’s curiosity.

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Seven Wives and Seven Prisons

by L. A. Abbott

Seven Wives and Seven Prisons

Seven Wives and Seven Prisons

by L. A. Abbott

About the author

L. A. Abbott is credited as the author of Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. A True Story, a work published in 1870 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg and other library collections.

Beyond that book, confirmed biographical details are scarce. Some modern catalogs list the author as born in 1813, but readily available sources provide very little more, so it is safest to treat Abbott as a little-documented 19th-century memoirist rather than claim a fuller life story that cannot be verified.

What remains memorable is the book itself: an unusual autobiographical narrative built around repeated marriages, legal trouble, and a voice that is part confession, part sensation. For many readers, Abbott’s appeal lies in that mix of personal history and sheer oddity.