White Queen
Subtitle: May French-Sheldon and the Imperial Origins of American Feminist Identity
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780253343895
Subjects: American history; Feminism; Imperialism; Social Science; Biography / Autobiography; Sociology; The Americas; Political; Women; Women's Studies - General; 1847-1936; Africa; Biography; Feminists; Nationalism and feminism; Sheldon, Mary French,; United States; Women explorers
First sentence: "How I wish I could go with you!" whispered the "lovely girl friends, sentimental hero-worshippers," pressed around May French-Sheldon, "who set the seal of admiration upon [her] lips by their farewell kisses" as she prepared to depart from London's Charing Cross Station for Dover and, from there, on to East Africa.