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

Carolyn L. Karcher

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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 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.

Language: English

Pages: 832

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Release: March 02, 1998

ISBN: 0822321637

ISBN 13: 9780822321637

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

Carolyn L. Karcher

4.2/5 ( ratings)

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 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.

Language: English

Pages: 832

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Duke University Press Books

Release: March 02, 1998

ISBN: 0822321637

ISBN 13: 9780822321637

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