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Well-read lives how books inspired a generation of American women /

In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, the author offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in Americas Gilded Age who lost and found themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them. Some women, like Edith and Alice Hamilton, M. Carey...

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Main Author: Sicherman, Barbara
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
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Women > Books and reading > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Girls > Books and reading > Social aspects > United States > History > 19th century.
Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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