The First Woman in the Republic A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child - New Americanists
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780822321637 |
Publisher: | Duke University Press Books |
Imprint: | Duke University Press |
Pub date: | 01 Sep 1998 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 832 |
Weight: | 1444g |
Height: | 177mm |
Width: | 254mm |
Spine width: | 46mm |