The First Woman in the Republic
Subtitle: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child (New Americanists)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: March 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 804
ISBN-13: 9780822321637
Subjects: Biography: general; Literary studies: 19th century; Women social reformers; Social Science; Biography/Autobiography; Women's Studies - General; 19th Century American Literature; Social Reform; United States - 19th Century; Biography / Autobiography; English; USA; Child, Lydia Maria Francis,; Literary; Women; 19th century; United States; Women Authors; 1802-1880; Authors, American; Biography; Reformers
First sentence: Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times (1824) opens with an autobiographical vignette depicting its author's dramatic entry onto the American literary scene.