O my America!
Subtitle: six women and their second acts in a new world
By: Sara Wheeler
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780374298814; 9781466836907; 9780374534783
Subjects: Social conditions; Women travelers; Biography; History
Description: Traces the steps of six women--author Fanny Trollope, actress Fanny Kemble, economist Harriet Martineau, homesteader Rebecca Burlend, traveler Isabella Bird, and novelist Catherine Hubback--who came to America in the nineteenth century to start new lives.
Notes: "Originally published, in somewhat different form, in 2013 by Jonathan Cape, Great Britain, as O my America! : second acts in a New World"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Merely telling the truth : Fanny Trollope goes to Ohio --; title: Brave new world : Fanny Kemble goes to Georgia --; title: A great embryo poet: Harriet Martineau goes to Massachusetts and Kentucky --; title: Is this America? : Rebecca Burlend goes to Illinois --; title: Above love and hate : Isabella Bird goes to Colorado --; title: No there there : Catherine Hubback goes to California.