Delwedd Flaen

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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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Sicherman, Barbara
Awdur Corfforaethol: ebrary, Inc
Fformat: Electronig eLyfr
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2010.
Pynciau:
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.
Electronic books.
Mynediad Ar-lein:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Tagiau: Ychwanegu Tag
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Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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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