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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821966103321

Autore

Campbell Susan <1959->

Titolo

Tempest-tossed : the spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker / / Susan Campbell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-8195-7388-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Garnet books

Disciplina

305.42092

Soggetti

Feminists - United States

Women social reformers - United States

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.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Tempest-Tossed; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Genealogies; The Fabulous Beechers; Children of Isabella Beecher and John Hooker; 1. The World That Awaited Belle; 2. Training to Be a Beecher; 3. The Education of Isabella Beecher; 4. Isabella in Love; 5. Isabella Marries, and Faces a Conundrum; 6. Motherhood, and Confusion; 7. Abolition, and an Awakening; 8. A Woman's Worth, a Brother's Shame; 9. A Spiritual Digression; 10. In the Thick of It; 11. The Elusive Ballot; 12. The End, and a Legacy; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

First full-length biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century American culture