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Tempest-Tossed : The Spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker /

First full-length biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century American culture.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Campbell, Susan, 1959- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2014]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Tempest-Tossed; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Genealogies; The Fabulous Beechers; Children of Isabella Beecher and John Hooker; 1. The World That Awaited Belle; 2. Training to Be a Beecher; 3. The Education of Isabella Beecher; 4. Isabella in Love; 5. Isabella Marries, and Faces a Conundrum; 6. Motherhood, and Confusion; 7. Abolition, and an Awakening; 8. A Woman's Worth, a Brother's Shame; 9. A Spiritual Digression; 10. In the Thick of It; 11. The Elusive Ballot; 12. The End, and a Legacy; Notes; Index.