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First Woman in the Republic A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child

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ISBN-10: 0822321637

ISBN-13: 9780822321637

Edition: 1994

Authors: Carolyn L. Karcher

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List price: $41.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 3/2/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 832
Size: 6.93" wide x 10.04" long x 1.65" tall
Weight: 3.234
Language: English

Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Chronology
Abbreviations
Prologue: A Passion for Books
The Author of Hobomok
Rebels and "Rivals": Self Portraits of a Conflicted Young Artist
The Juvenile Miscellany: The Creation of an American Children's Literature
A Marriage of True Minds: Espousing the Indian Cause
Blighted Prospects: Indian Fiction and Domestic Reality
The Frugal Housewife: Financial Worries and Domestic Advice
Children's Literature and Antislavery: Conservative Medium, Radical Message
"The First Woman in the Republic": An Antislavery Baptism
An Antislavery Marriage: Careers at Cross Purposes
The Conditions of Women: Double Binds, Unresolved Conflicts
Schisms, Personal and Political
The National Anti-Slavery Standard: Family Newspaper or Factional Organ?
Letters from New York: The Invention of a New Literary Genre
Sexuality and Marriage in Fact and Fiction
The Progress of Religious Ideas: A "Pilgrimage of Pennance"
Autumnal Leaves: Reconsecrated Partnerships, Personal and Political
The Example of John Brown
Child's Civil War
Visions of a Reconstructed America: The Freedmen's Book and A Romance of the Republic
A Radical Old Age
Aspirations of the World
Afterword
Notes
Works of Lydia Maria Child
Index