"Circumstances are destiny" : an Antebellum woman's struggle to define sphere / / Tina Stewart Brakebill.
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| Superior document: | Civil War in the North |
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| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Civil War in the North.
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| Physical Description: | xx, 255 p. :; ill., map. |
| Notes: | Originally presented as the author's thesis (master's)--Illinois State University, Normal, Ill., 2002. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1827-1848 : "The impress of the Connecticut character"
- 1848-1853 : "It is my first desire to be a blessing to my husband and-- train up my child in the way of virtue and religion"
- 1853-1857 : "Her influence at home-- may sway the destinies of the world"
- October 1857-January 1858 : "I sometimes think my whole being is changed"
- December 1857-May 1858 : "Yet I live a life they know not of"
- June 1858-December 1858 : "Eleven years ago to day since I took upon myself the cares of a housekeeper"
- November 1858-November 1859 : "I wish for a 'bright little isle' to be peopled with the good, the loving, the gifted"
- November 1859-February 1861 : "I am accomplishing nothing"
- February 1861-November 1861 : "Dark and fearful must be the struggle"
- September 1861-December 1862 : "He is the true patriot-- whose patriotism is only another term for the love of truth, justice and humanity"
- September 1862-April 1865 : "And we women-- can only wait, and wait"
- February 1865-July 1900 : "If I only could leave behind all the darkness-- and forget the past".