2010, ISBN: 9780807833087

Hardcover

[SC: 23.9], [PU: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010], Jacket, , Sicherman, Barbara. Well-read lives : How books inspired a generation of American women. Chapel Hill : … More...

[SC: 23.9], [PU: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010], Jacket, , Sicherman, Barbara. Well-read lives : How books inspired a generation of American women. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010, 380pp., very good dust-jacket, very good white hardcover. nicely INSCRIBED and SIGNED and dated on title page to two recipients with first names only: "Friends of longstanding, all the best" Barbara. 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. ISBN 9780807833087, Books<

2010, ISBN: 9780807833087

Hardcover

[SC: 71.34], [PU: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010], Jacket, , Sicherman, Barbara. Well-read lives : How books inspired a generation of American women. Chapel Hill :… More...

[SC: 71.34], [PU: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010], Jacket, , Sicherman, Barbara. Well-read lives : How books inspired a generation of American women. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010, 380pp., very good dust-jacket, very good white hardcover. nicely INSCRIBED and SIGNED and dated on title page to two recipients with first names only: "Friends of longstanding, all the best" Barbara. 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. ISBN 9780807833087<

2010, ISBN: 9780807833087

Hardcover

[SC: 71.45], [PU: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010], Jacket, , Sicherman, Barbara. Well-read lives : How books inspired a generation of American women. Chapel Hill :… More...

[SC: 71.45], [PU: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010], Jacket, , Sicherman, Barbara. Well-read lives : How books inspired a generation of American women. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010, 380pp., very good dust-jacket, very good white hardcover. nicely INSCRIBED and SIGNED and dated on title page to two recipients with first names only: "Friends of longstanding, all the best" Barbara. 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. ISBN 9780807833087<

ISBN: 9780807833087

In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America's Gilded Age who lost--and found--thems… More...

In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, 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. She argues that with "Little Women"'s Jo March often serving as a youthful model of independence, girls and young women created communities of learning, imagination, and emotional connection around literary activities in ways that helped them imagine, and later attain, public identities. Sicherman discusses Edith & Alice Hamilton, Jane Addams, Rose Cohen, Ida B. Wells, and others. Media >, [PU: University of North Carolina Press]<