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O my America! : six women and their second acts in a new world / Sara Wheeler

By:

Wheeler, Sara

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2013Edition: First American editionDescription: 281 p. : illus. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780374298814

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DDC classification:

973.9 WHE

LOC classification:

E184.B7 W45 2013

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.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	973.9 WHE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		036429

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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.

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