Raising more hell and fewer dahlias : the public life of Charlotte Smith, 1840-1917 / / Autumn Stanley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910811978603321
• Autore: Stanley Autumn <1933->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bethlehem [Pa.], : Lehigh University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 0-8453-4291-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (236 p.)
• Disciplina: 361.2/4092
• Soggetti: Women social reformers - United States; Women - United States - Social conditions - 19th century; Social action - United States - History - 19th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-230) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Beginnings -- A divided family in occupied Memphis: Charlotte Smith's Civil War -- Carpetbagging and marriage: the postwar years, 1865-1871 -- St. Louis revisited: the Inland monthly years, 1872-1878 -- The capital years, part I: Washington, DC, 1879-1885 -- The capital years, part II: baby brother and the bete noire: Robert Odlum, Paul Boyton, and the Brooklyn Bridge, 1885 -- The capital years, part III: Washington, DC, 1886-1892 -- The Boston traveler: final years, 1892-1917.