First Woman in the Republic : a Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child.

"Taking its title from the accolade William Lloyd Garrison bestowed on Child - "she is the first woman in the republic"--This innovative cultural biography recreates the world as well as the life of a major nineteenth-century figure whose career encompassed issues central to American...

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Main Author: Karcher, Carolyn L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 1998.
Series:New Americanists.
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505 0 |a ""Contents ""; ""Illustrations ""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments ""; ""Chronology ""; ""Abbreviations ""; ""Prologue: A Passion for Books ""; ""Chapter 1. The Author of Hobomok ""; ""Chapter 2. Rebels and ""Rivals"": Self Portraits of a Conflicted Young Artist ""; ""Chapter 3. The Juvenile Miscellany: The Creation of an American Children's Literature ""; ""Chapter 4. A Marriage of True Minds: Espousing the Indian Cause ""; ""Chapter 5. Blighted Prospects: Indian Fiction and Domestic Reality ""; ""Chapter 6. The Frugal Housewife: Financial Worries and Domestic Advice "" 
505 8 |a ""Chapter 7. Children's Literature and Antislavery: Conservative Medium, Radical Message """"Chapter 8. ""The First Woman in the Republic"": An Antislavery Baptism ""; ""Chapter 9. An Antislavery Marriage: Careers at Cross Purposes ""; ""Chapter 10. The Condition of Women: Double Binds, Unresolved Conflicts ""; ""Chapter 11. Schisms, Personal and Political ""; ""Chapter 12. The National Anti-Slavery Standard: Family Newspaper or Factional Organ? ""; ""Chapter 13. Letters from New York: The Invention of a New Literary Genre ""; ""Chapter 14. Sexuality and Marriage in Fact and Fiction "" 
505 8 |a ""Chapter 15. The Progress of Religious Ideas: A ""Pilgrimage of Penance"" """"Chapter 16. Autumnal Leaves: Reconsecrated Partnerships, Personal and Political ""; ""Chapter 17. The Example of John Brown ""; ""Chapter 18. Child's Civil War ""; ""Chapter 19. Visions of a Reconstructed America: The Freedmen's Book and A Romance of the Republic ""; ""Chapter 20. A Radical Old Age ""; ""Chapter 21. Aspirations of the World ""; ""Afterword ""; ""Notes ""; ""Works of Lydia Maria Child ""; ""Index "" 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
520 1 |a "Taking its title from the accolade William Lloyd Garrison bestowed on Child - "she is the first woman in the republic"--This innovative cultural biography recreates the world as well as the life of a major nineteenth-century figure whose career encompassed issues central to American history. Carolyn L. Karcher captures the throes of a tumultuous era that saw the mass transfer of many Native tribes, ferocious mob violence against abolitionists and African American communities, bitter dissension among reformers over tactics and principles, a dramatic transformation in women's lives, a Civil War unprecedented not only for its carnage but also for its character as a liberation struggle, and a tragically aborted Reconstruction. She explores the key role Child played in shaping American culture at a formative moment in its development and reveals her impact on almost every facet of nineteenth-century letters. She also takes readers into the private life of a complex woman, riven by deep contradictions and remarkably honest about her feelings. This definitive biography restores to the public an eloquent writer and reformer who embodied the best of the American democratic heritage."--Jacket. 
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