LEADER 04286nam 22006254 450 001 9910787159003321 005 20140801105817.0 010 $a0-8223-9838-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9780822398387 035 $a(CKB)3710000000260563 035 $a(OCoLC)674175033 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10953649 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001379735 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11994296 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001379735 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11365647 035 $a(PQKB)10087727 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3008136 035 $a885071219 035 $a(OCoLC)1159210511 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse80866 035 $a(DE-B1597)553780 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780822398387 035 $a(OCoLC)1229161611 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000260563 100 $a20140801d1994 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe first woman in the republic $ea cultural biography of Lydia Maria Child /$fby Carolyn L. Karcher 210 1$aDurham :$cDuke University Press,$d1994. 215 $a1 online resource (844 p.) 225 1 $aNew Americanists 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8223-2163-7 311 $a0-8223-1485-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChronology -- Prologue: A passion for books -- The author of Hobomok -- Rebels and "Rivals": self portraits of a conflicted young artist -- The Juvenile Miscellany: the creation of an American children's literature -- A marriage of true minds: espousing the Indian cause -- Blighted prospects: Indian fiction and domestic reality -- The Frugal Housewife: financial worries and domestic advice -- Children's literature and antislavery: conservative medium, radical message -- "The First Woman in the Republic": an antislavery baptism -- An antislavery marriage: careers at cross purposes -- The Condition of Women: double binds, unresolved conflicts -- Schisms, personal and political -- The National Anti-Slavery Standard: family newspaper of factional organ? -- Letters From New York: the invention of a new literary genre -- Sexuality and marriage in Fact and Fiction -- The Progress of Religious Ideas: a "pilgrimage of penance" -- Autumnal Leaves: reconsecrated partnerships, personal and political -- The example of John Brown -- Child's Civil War -- Visions of a reconstructed America: The Freedmen's Book and A Romance of the Republic -- A radical old age -- Aspirations of the World -- Afterword. 330 1 $a"Taking its title from the accolade William Lloyd Garrison bestowed on Child - "she is the first woman in the republic" - this innovative cultural biography recreates the world as well as the life of a major nineteenth-century figure whose career encompassed issues central to American history. Carolyn L. Karcher captures the throes of a tumultuous era that saw the mass transfer of many Native tribes, ferocious mob violence against abolitionists and African American communities, bitter dissension among reformers over tactics and principles, a dramatic transformation in women's lives, a Civil War unprecedented not only for its carnage but also for its character as a liberation struggle, and a tragically aborted Reconstruction. She explores the key role Child played in shaping American culture at a formative moment in its development and reveals her impact on almost every facet of nineteenth-century letters. She also takes readers into the private life of a complex woman, riven by deep contradictions and remarkably honest about her feelings. This definitive biography restores to the public an eloquent writer and reformer who embodied the best of the American democratic heritage."--BOOK JACKET. 410 0$aNew Americanists. 606 $aWomen social reformers$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aAuthors, American$y19th century$vBiography 615 0$aWomen social reformers 615 0$aAuthors, American 676 $a303.48/4/092 676 $aB 700 $aKarcher$b Carolyn L.$f1945-$01478117 801 0$bNDD 801 1$bNDD 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787159003321 996 $aThe first woman in the republic$93693704 997 $aUNINA