Well-Read Lives How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women

Name: Well-Read Lives How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women
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ISBN: 9780807839096

ISBN-10: 0807839094

ISBN-13: 9780807839096

Edition: 2012

Authors: Barbara Sicherman

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In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America's 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 Thomas, and Jane Addams, grew up in households filled with books, while less privileged women found alternative routes to expressive literacy. Jewish immigrants Hilda Satt Polacheck, Rose Cohen, and Mary Antin acquired new identities in the English-language books they found in settlement houses and libraries, while African Americans like Ida B. Wells relied mainly on institutions of…

Book details

List price: $37.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 8/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Barbara Sicherman is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values, Emerita, at Trinity College. She is author of Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters and The Quest for Mental Health in America, 1880-1917and coeditor of Notable American Women: The Modern Period.