Raising more hell and fewer dahlias
Subtitle: the public life of Charlotte Smith, 1840-1917
By: Autumn Stanley.
Publisher: Lehigh University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bethlehem
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780934223997
Subjects: Smith, Charlotte, -- 1840-1917; Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography; Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Social action -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Genres: Biography.
Description: This book is the first biography of nineteenth century magazine editor and reformer Charlotte Smith. Based on years of research, and previously untapped sources, it shows both why she should be remembered and why she was forgotten. Her story is quintessentially American: this daughter of Irish immigrants, despite having only a grade school education and supporting two children alone, became a force to be reckoned with, first in journalism and then in reform. Her first periodical, the "Inland Monthly", was doubly rare: edited by a woman but not a women's magazine; and a profitable venture, bringing a large sum when sold.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Beginnings; title: A divided family in occupied Memphis: Charlotte Smith's Civil War; title: Carpetbagging and marriage: the postwar years, 1865-1871; title: St. Louis revisited: the Inland monthly years, 1872-1878; title: The capital years, part I: Washington, DC, 1879-1885; title: The capital years, part II: baby brother and the bete noire: Robert Odlum, Paul Boyton, and the Brooklyn Bridge, 1885; title: The capital years,  part III: Washington, DC, 1886-1892; title: The Boston traveler: final years, 1892-1917.