The First Woman in the Republic : A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child Paperback / softback
by Carolyn L. Karcher
Part of the New Americanists series
Paperback / softback
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For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States.
Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker.
Although best known today for having edited Harriet A.
Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, she pioneered almost every department of nineteenth-century American letters—the historical novel, the short story, children’s literature, the domestic advice book, women’s history, antislavery fiction, journalism, and the literature of aging.
Offering a panoramic view of a nation and culture in flux, this innovative cultural biography (originally published by Duke University Press in 1994) recreates the world as well as the life of a major nineteenth-figure whose career as a writer and social reformer encompassed issues central to American history.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:832 pages, 10 b&w photographs
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:02/03/1998
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- ISBN:9780822321637
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:832 pages, 10 b&w photographs
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:02/03/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822321637
