The quack's daughter : a true story about the private life of a victorian college girl /
Raised in the gritty Mississippi River town of Davenport, Iowa, Cora Keck could have walked straight out of a Susan Glaspell story. When Cora was sent to Vassar College in the fall of 1884, she was a typical unmotivated, newly rich party girl. Her improbable educational opportunity at "the firs...
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| 格式: | Licensed eBooks |
| 語言: | 英语 |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
2014.
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| 版: | Revised edition. |
| 在線閱讀: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=799546 |
書本目錄:
- Intro
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1. The Wickedest City in America
- 2. These Leap Year Girls Are Getting Awfully Bold
- 3. Vassar's Crisis and Cora's Humiliation
- 4. Memorable Date of Entrance
- 5. The Green Girls
- 6. Mugwumps and Oysters
- 7. College Pie with Tomatoes-Entirely New
- 8. Abandoned at Christmas
- 9. First Time Out from College
- 10. Vassar Girl on a String
- 11. Oh! u Wretch!
- 12. Only 17,000 Minutes till Our Next Vacation
- 13. The Girl of the Period
- 14. The No. 2000 Horse
- 15. Alas-So Vilely Played and So Carelessly Practiced
- 16. A Great Shock
- 17. The Animated Stump
- 18. Dear Davenport Dear Home
- 19. The Black List
- 20. My Year's Absence from D
- 21. My Interesting Stranger Friend
- 22. The Sentimental Satellites
- 23. The Vassar Trio
- 24. U Played Just Like a Wild Girl
- 25. Poor Boys Who Have Become Rich
- 26. The Gem of the Evening
- 27. Life Underground and Its Dangers
- 28. Cora's Heart's Desire
- 29. Oh! How Little They Know. Anybody!
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Name Index.