Raising more hell and fewer dahlias : the public life of Charlotte Smith, 1840-1917 /

This book is the first biography of nineteenth century magazine editor and reformer Charlotte Smith. Based on years of research, and previously untapped sources, it shows both why she should be remembered and why she was forgotten. Her story is quintessentially American: this daughter of Irish immig...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stanley, Autumn, 1933-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press, ©2009.
Temas:
Smith, Charlotte, > 1840-1917.
Smith, Charlotte, > 1840-1917
1800-1899
Women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Women > United States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Social action > United States > History > 19th century.
Réformatrices sociales > États-Unis > Biographies.
Femmes > États-Unis > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Action sociale > États-Unis > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Social action
Women > Social conditions
Women social reformers
United States
collective biographies.
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Beginnings
  • A divided family in occupied Memphis: Charlotte Smith's Civil War
  • Carpetbagging and marriage: the postwar years, 1865-1871
  • St. Louis revisited: the Inland monthly years, 1872-1878
  • The capital years, part I: Washington, DC, 1879-1885
  • The capital years, part II: baby brother and the bête noire: Robert Odlum, Paul Boyton, and the Brooklyn Bridge, 1885
  • The capital years, part III: Washington, DC, 1886-1892
  • The Boston traveler: final years, 1892-1917.

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