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Sirpa Salenius, An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe
Sirpa Salenius, An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. StĂ©phanie Durrans UniversitĂ© Bordeaux Montaigne, France Based on extensive archival research that was carried out on both sides of the Atlantic, Sirpa Saleniusâs An Abolitionist Abroad is a much needed addition to our understanding of the complex transatlantic networks that developed throughout the nineteenth century. This work is primarily concerned..
Sirpa Salenius, An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe
Sirpa Salenius, An Abolitionist Abroad: Sarah Parker Remond in Cosmopolitan Europe Amherst and Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016. StĂ©phanie Durrans UniversitĂ© Bordeaux Montaigne, France Based on extensive archival research that was carried out on both sides of the Atlantic, Sirpa Saleniusâs An Abolitionist Abroad is a much needed addition to our understanding of the complex transatlantic networks that developed throughout the nineteenth century. This work is primarily concerned..
Introduction. Harriet Prescott Spofford: The Home, the Nation, and the Wilderness
Throughout the nineteenth century, as underlined by Nancy Cott in The Bonds of Womanhood, âthe central convention of domesticity was the contrast between the home and the worldâ (64). The tension between private and public no doubt informs most of Harriet Prescott Spoffordâs work and will be addressed from many different angles by the contributors to this special issue. As a middle-class white woman who lived with her husband and extended family on the beautiful premises of Deer Island, Massa..
American Women Writers Abroad: Myth and Reality
Be they explorers, adventurers, travellers, exiles or expatriates, scores of women have broken free from the domestic sphere to which a male-dominated society would have them bound and recorded their impressions of the wider world in their writings or used them as artistic material. For a long time, though, British Victorian womenâs literature remained the almost exclusive focus of critical inquiry while American women writersâ contribution to this field was by and large neglected. This gap i..
Christine L. Ridarsky and Mary M. Huth, eds. Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights. With an introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt
Christine L. Ridarsky and Mary M. Huth, eds. Susan B. Anthony and the Struggle for Equal Rights. With an introduction by Nancy A. Hewitt New York: University of Rochester Press, 2013. Pp. 256. ISBN: 9781580464253 (Hardback) Stéphanie Durrans As we are approaching the centennial of the 19th amendment that gave American women the right to vote, we would do well to remember that this hard-earned victory was the outcome of many decades of struggle against various forms of gender inequality led b..
From âthe Tyranny of the Stomach' to the World âBeyond' : Food and Utopia in The House of Mirth
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Thy Truth Then Be Thy Dowry: Questions of Inheritance in American Womenâs Literature
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