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The Mother Who Shaped Whistler and His Time
The life of Anna Mathilda McNeill Whistler, mother of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, is traced from her Scottish-North Carolina roots through her support during his early career in Europe. Her devotion aided Whistler as he forged a path in art, while she faced Civil War disruptions and peril aboard a Confederate blockade runner seeking to reunite with her son in London.
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Anna Mathilda McNeill Whistler
James McNeill Whistler
McNeill
America
Isle of Skye
Donald McNeill
Cape Fear River
North Carolina
McNeills
Princeton
Scotland
Anna Mathilda McNeill
Maj
William Gibbs McNeill
United States Army
United States Military Academy
West Point
George Washington Whistler
Capt
John Whistler
Ireland
Burgoyne
Saratoga
England
Hagerstown
Old Northwest
Hull
Detroit
Whistler
Chicago
Fort Dearborn
Sarah Whistler
James Abbott
George Washington Whistle
Lake Michigan
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
the MacNeills
the Whistlers
Russia
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Nicholas
Tamie
Jamie
Major Whistler
Ele
Paris
London
Royal Academy
Europe
Cumberland
Wilmington
N.C
William Laurie Hill
Fort Fisher
Hill