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Claiming the pen : women and intellectual life in the early American South /

In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in white southern wome...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kerrison, Catherine, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2015]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t List of Illustrations --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t 1. Toward an Intellectual History of Early Southern Women --  |t 2. "The Truest Kind of Breeding": Prescriptive Literature in the Early South --  |t 3. Religion, Voice, and Authority --  |t 4. Reading Novels in the South --  |t 5. Reading, Race, and Writing --  |t Conclusion: The Enduring Problem of Female Authorship and Authority --  |t Postscript --  |t Abbreviations --  |t Notes --  |t Index. 
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