Jane Grey Swisshelm : an unconventional life, 1815-1884 /

19th-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman. While she struggled in private to be a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother; she publicly critiqued and successfully challenged gender conventions that restricted her personal behavior and limited he...

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Autor Principal: Hoffert, Sylvia D.
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press ©2004.
Acceso en liña:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807875889_hoffert
Table of Contents:
  • That olde-time religion
  • A marriage fraught with conflict
  • The troublesome matter of property
  • Woman's work in a man's world
  • A different sort of politics
  • A world in need of improvement
  • Respectable but not genteel.