The quack's daughter : a true story about the private life of a victorian college girl / / by Greta Nettleton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464594503321
• Autore: Nettleton Greta <1957->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Iowa City : , : University of Iowa Press, , 2014; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-60938-243-9
• Edizione: [Revised edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (420 p.)
• Disciplina: 378.0082
• Soggetti: Women - Education (Higher) - United States - History - 19th century; Women musicians - United States; Women physicians - United States; Electronic books.; Davenport (Iowa) Biography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Raised in the gritty Mississippi River town of Davenport, Iowa, Cora Keck could have walked straight out of a Susan Glaspell story. When Cora was sent to Vassar College in the fall of 1884, she was a typical unmotivated, newly rich party girl. Her improbable educational opportunity at "the first great educational institution for womankind" turned into an enthralling journey of self-discovery as she struggled to meet the high standards in Vassar's School of Music while trying to shed her reputation as the daughter of a notorious quack and self-made millionaire: Mrs. Dr. Rebecca J. Keck, second