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050 0 0 _aE184.B7
_bW45 2013
082 0 0 _a973.9 WHE
100 1 _aWheeler, Sara
245 1 0 _aO my America!
_b: six women and their second acts in a new world
_c/ Sara Wheeler
250 _aFirst American edition
260 _aNew York
_b: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
_c, 2013
300 _a281 p.
_b: illus.
_c; 22 cm
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505 0 _aMerely 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.
520 _aTraces 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.
650 0 _aWomen travelers
_z--United States
_x--History
_y--19th Century
650 0 _aWomen
_z--United States
_v--Biography
651 0 _aBritish
_z--United States
_x--History
_y--19th Century
651 0 _aUnited States
_x--Social conditions
_y--19th Century
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