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

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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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Автор: Sicherman, Barbara
Співавтор: ebrary, Inc
Формат: Електронний ресурс eКнига
Мова:Англійська
Опубліковано: 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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Зміст:
  • 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.

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