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Jane Grey Swisshelm : An Unconventional Life, 1815-1884 /

19th-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman. While she struggled in private to be a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother; she publicly critiqued and successfully challenged gender conventions that restricted her personal behavior and limited he...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hoffert, Sylvia D.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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  • That olde-time religion
  • A marriage fraught with conflict
  • The troublesome matter of property
  • Woman's work in a man's world
  • A different sort of politics
  • A world in need of improvement
  • Respectable but not genteel.