Wheeler, Sara <br/><br/>
O my America!  : six women and their second acts in a new world 
/ Sara Wheeler 
 - First American edition 
 - New York  : Farrar, Straus and Giroux  , 2013 
 - 281 p.  : illus.  ; 22 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780374298814 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013007572 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women travelers----History----United States----19th Century<br/>Women----United States----Biography
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>British----History----United States----19th Century<br/>United States----Social conditions----19th Century
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E184.B7  / W45 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>973.9 WHE