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"Twelve-step" recovery programmes for a variety of addictive behaviours
have become popular. According to John W. Crowley, the origin of these
movements - including Alcoholics Anonymous - lies in the Washingtonian
Temperance Society, founded in Baltimore in the 1840s. In lectures, pamphlets
and books (most notably John B. Gough's "Autobiography", published in 1845),
recovering "drunkards" described their enslavement to and liberation from
alcohol. Though widely circulated in their time, these influential temperance
narratives seem to have been largely forgotten. This is a presentation of a collection of revealing excerpts from
temperance texts, along with Crowley's own introductions. The tales, including
"The Experience Meeting" from T.S. Arthur's "Six Nights with the
Washingtonians" (1842) and the autobiographical "Narrative of Charles Woodman,
A Reformed Inebriate" (1843), still speak with surprising force to the miseries
of drunkenness and the joys of deliverance. A collection of revealing excerpts from temperance texts of the
Washingtonian Temperance Society, accompanied by Crowley's own introductions.
It includes the autobiographical "Narrative of Charles Woodman, A Reformed
Inebriate" (1843).
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Drunkard's Progress: Narratives of Addiction, Despair, and Recovery
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