ISBN:
9780822314851
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (844 p)
Series Statement:
New Americanists
Parallel Title:
Print version First Woman in the Republic : A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
DDC:
303.48/4/092
Keywords:
Child, Lydia Maria ; 1802-1880..
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Women social reformers ; United States ; Biography..
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Authors, American ; 19th century ; Biography
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Abbreviations -- Prologue: A Passion for Books -- Chapter 1. The Author of Hobomok -- Chapter 2. Rebels and "Rivals": Self Portraits of a Conflicted Young Artist -- Chapter 3. The Juvenile Miscellany: The Creation of an American Children's Literature -- Chapter 4. A Marriage of True Minds: Espousing the Indian Cause -- Chapter 5. Blighted Prospects: Indian Fiction and Domestic Reality -- Chapter 6. The Frugal Housewife: Financial Worries and Domestic Advice -- Chapter 7. Children's Literature and Antislavery: Conservative Medium, Radical Message -- Chapter 8. "The First Woman in the Republic": An Antislavery Baptism -- Chapter 9. An Antislavery Marriage: Careers at Cross Purposes -- Chapter 10. The Condition of Women: Double Binds, Unresolved Conflicts -- Chapter 11. Schisms, Personal and Political -- Chapter 12. The National Anti-Slavery Standard: Family Newspaper or Factional Organ? -- Chapter 13. Letters from New York: The Invention of a New Literary Genre -- Chapter 14. Sexuality and Marriage in Fact and Fiction -- Chapter 15. The Progress of Religious Ideas: A "Pilgrimage of Penance" -- Chapter 16. Autumnal Leaves: Reconsecrated Partnerships, Personal and Political -- Chapter 17. The Example of John Brown -- Chapter 18. Child's Civil War -- Chapter 19. Visions of a Reconstructed America: The Freedmen's Book and A Romance of the Republic -- Chapter 20. A Radical Old Age -- Chapter 21. Aspirations of the World -- Afterword -- Notes -- Works of Lydia Maria Child -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
""Contents ""; ""Illustrations ""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments ""; ""Chronology ""; ""Abbreviations ""; ""Prologue: A Passion for Books ""; ""Chapter 1. The Author of Hobomok ""; ""Chapter 2. Rebels and ""Rivals"": Self Portraits of a Conflicted Young Artist ""; ""Chapter 3. The Juvenile Miscellany: The Creation of an American Children's Literature ""; ""Chapter 4. A Marriage of True Minds: Espousing the Indian Cause ""; ""Chapter 5. Blighted Prospects: Indian Fiction and Domestic Reality ""; ""Chapter 6. The Frugal Housewife: Financial Worries and Domestic Advice ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Chapter 7. Children's Literature and Antislavery: Conservative Medium, Radical Message """"Chapter 8. ""The First Woman in the Republic"": An Antislavery Baptism ""; ""Chapter 9. An Antislavery Marriage: Careers at Cross Purposes ""; ""Chapter 10. The Condition of Women: Double Binds, Unresolved Conflicts ""; ""Chapter 11. Schisms, Personal and Political ""; ""Chapter 12. The National Anti-Slavery Standard: Family Newspaper or Factional Organ? ""; ""Chapter 13. Letters from New York: The Invention of a New Literary Genre ""; ""Chapter 14. Sexuality and Marriage in Fact and Fiction ""
Description / Table of Contents:
""Chapter 15. The Progress of Religious Ideas: A ""Pilgrimage of Penance"" """"Chapter 16. Autumnal Leaves: Reconsecrated Partnerships, Personal and Political ""; ""Chapter 17. The Example of John Brown ""; ""Chapter 18. Child's Civil War ""; ""Chapter 19. Visions of a Reconstructed America: The Freedmen's Book and A Romance of the Republic ""; ""Chapter 20. A Radical Old Age ""; ""Chapter 21. Aspirations of the World ""; ""Afterword ""; ""Notes ""; ""Works of Lydia Maria Child ""; ""Index ""
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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