Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers – serie
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Emily Hamilton and Other Writings
Av Sukey Vickery, Scott Slawinski
Häftad, 2009
380 kr
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Sukey Vickery's Emily Hamilton is an epistolary novel dealing with the courtship and marriages of three women. Originally published in 1803, it is one of the earliest examples of realist fiction in America and a departure from other novels at the turn of the nineteenth century. From the outset its …
Christine
Or Woman's Trials and Triumphs
Av Laura Curtis Bullard, Denise M. Kohn
Häftad, 2011
445 kr
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When Laura Curtis Bullard wrote the novel Christine in 1856, she created one of antebellum America's most radical heroines: a woman's rights leader. Addressing the major social, political, and cultural issues surrounding women from within an unusually overt feminist framework for its time, …
Observations on the Real Rights of Women and Other Writings
Av Hannah Mather Crocker, Constance J. Post
Häftad, 2011
387 kr
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Following in the path of her distinguished Puritan forebears, Hannah Mather Crocker used her skills as a writer primarily to persuade. Unlike those forebears, however, she did not begin her career as a published writer until well into middle age, after the death of her husband, Joseph Crocker, and …
Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull
Suffrage, Free Love, and Eugenics
Av Victoria C. Woodhull, Cari M. Carpenter
Häftad, 2010
387 kr
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Suffragist, lecturer, eugenicist, businesswoman, free lover, and the first woman to run for president of the United States, Victoria C. Woodhull (1838–1927) has been all but forgotten as a leading nineteenth-century feminist writer and radical. Selected Writings of Victoria Woodhull is the first …
Hermaphrodite
Av Julia Ward Howe, Gary Williams
Häftad, 2009
380 kr
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Written in the 1840s and published here for the first time, Julia Ward Howe's novel about a hermaphrodite is unlike anything of its time—or, in truth, of our own. Narrated by Laurence, who is raised and lives as a man and is loved by men and women alike, yet can respond to neither, this …
Nature's Aristocracy
A Plea for the Oppressed
Av Jennie Collins, Judith Ranta
Häftad, 2010
399 kr
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In 1871 Jennie Collins became one of the first working-class American women to publish a volume of her own writings: Nature's Aristocracy. Merging autobiography, social criticism, fictionalized vignettes, and feminist polemics, her book examines the perennial problem of class in America. Collins …
Selections from Eliza Leslie
Av Eliza Leslie, Etta M. Madden
Häftad, 2011
510 kr
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Best known for her culinary and domestic guides and the award-winning short story "Mrs. Washington Potts," Eliza Leslie deserves a much more prominent place in contemporary literary discussions of the nineteenth century. Her writing, known for its overtly moralistic and didactic tones—though often …
Law Unto Herself
Av Rebecca Harding Davis, Alicia Mischa Renfroe
Häftad, 2015
380 kr
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A scathing critique of the legal status of women and their property rights in nineteenth-century America, Rebecca Harding Davis’s 1878 novel A Law Unto Herself chronicles the experiences of Jane Swendon, a seemingly naÏve and conventional nineteenth-century protagonist struggling to care for her …
Cherokee Sister
The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823
Av Catharine Brown, Theresa Strouth Gaul
Häftad, 2014
510 kr
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Catharine Brown (1800?–1823) became Brainerd Mission School’s first Cherokee convert to Christianity, a missionary teacher, and the first Native American woman whose own writings saw extensive publication in her lifetime. After her death from tuberculosis at age twenty-three, the missionary …
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Selected Tales, Essays, and Poems
Av Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Elizabeth Duquette m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
380 kr
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The well-educated daughter of a minister, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911) was introduced to writing at a young age, as both her mother and father were published writers. In 1868 she published her first major novel, The Gates Ajar. An international success, the novel sold more than six hundred …
Elder Northfield's Home
Or, Sacrificed on the Mormon Altar
Av A. Jennie Bartlett, Nicole Tonkovich
Häftad, 2015
380 kr
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The practice of plural marriage, commonly known as polygamy, stirred intense controversy in postbellum America until 1890, when the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints first officially abolished the practice. Elder Northfield's Home, published by A. Jennie Bartlett in 1882, is both a …
Married or Single?
Av Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Deborah Gussman
Häftad, 2015
380 kr
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Married or Single?, published in 1857, was Catharine Maria Sedgwick's final novel and a fitting climax to the career of one of antebellum America's first and most successful woman writers. Insisting on women's right to choose whether to marry, Married or Single? rejects the stigma of spinsterhood …
In the "Stranger People's" Country
Av Mary Noailles Murfree, Marjorie Pryse
Häftad, 2005
251 kr
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In the "Stranger People's" Country tells the story of contact between a late-nineteenth-century Tennessee mountain community and an amateur archaeologist who wants to open the graves of the prehistoric "leetle stranger people," a source of myth to the mountaineers. A politician looking for votes in …
Two Men
Av Elizabeth Stoddard, Jennifer Putzi
Häftad, 2008
283 kr
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We first meet Jason Auster when he climbs out of a stagecoach in a New England maritime town and, as it were, salutes destiny. A twenty-year-old house carpenter who has come adventuring, Jason hopes to "put in practice certain theories concerning the rights of men and property which had already …
