O my America! six women and their second acts in a new world
Traces the steps of six women--author Fanny Trollope, actress Fanny Kemble, economist Harriet Martineau, homesteader Rebecca Burlend, traveler Isabella Bird ,and novelist Catherine Hubback--who came to America in the nineteenth century to start new lives.
| Main Author: | Wheeler, Sara. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2013.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Merely telling the truth : Fanny Trollope goes to Ohio
- Brave new world : Fanny Kemble goes to Georgia
- A great embryo poet: Harriet Martineau goes to Massachusetts and Kentucky
- Is this America? : Rebecca Burlend goes to Illinois
- Above love and hate : Isabella Bird goes to Colorado
- No there there : Catherine Hubback goes to California.