Well-read lives : how books inspired a generation of American women / / Barbara Sicherman.
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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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 380 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.