The quack's daughter : a true story about the private life of a victorian college girl / / by Greta Nettleton
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| Autore: |
Nettleton Greta <1957->
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| Titolo: |
The quack's daughter : a true story about the private life of a victorian college girl / / by Greta Nettleton
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| Pubblicazione: | Iowa City : , : University of Iowa Press, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Edizione: | Revised edition. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (420 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 378.0082 |
| Soggetto topico: | Women - Education (Higher) - United States - History - 19th century |
| Women musicians - United States | |
| Women physicians - United States | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Davenport (Iowa) Biography |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The quack's daughter |
| ISBN: | 1-60938-243-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910464594503321 |
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