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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Format: | Elektroniczne E-book |
Język: | angielski |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
c2010.
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Spis treści:
- Reading Little women
- Women and the new cultural landscape of the Gilded Age
- Young women's ways of reading
- (Reading as) a family affair : the Hamiltons of Fort Wayne
- Reading and ambition : M. Carey Thomas and female heroism
- Working her way through culture : Jane Addams and literature's dual legacy
- Hull-House as a cultural space
- New books, new lives : Jewish immigrant women, reading, and identity
- With pen and voice : Ida B. Wells, race, literature, and politics.