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8) The captain's widow of Sandwich: self-invention and the life of Hannah Rebecca Burgess, 1834-1917
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xi, 267 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
Hawthorne Books & Literary Arts
Pub. Date
MMXVI.
Physical Desc
xiii, 358 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sallie Tisdale is the author of seven books on such varied subjects as medical technology, her pioneer ancestors and Buddhist women teachers. Her many essays have appeared in Harper's, Conjunctions, The New Yorker, Antioch Review, Threepenny Review and many other journals. This first collection of work spans thirty years, and includes an introduction and brief epilogues to each essay. Tisdale's questing curiosity pursues subjects from the biology...
Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
The life narratives in this collection are by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition - some well known, some forgotten over generations - who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to adventurous new lives in a rapidly changing America. The engaging selections - from captivity narratives to letters, manifestos, criminal confessions, and childhood sketches - span a hundred years in which...
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