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953543
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b707913
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Before they could vote : : American women's autobiographical writing, 1819-1919 /\ edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson.
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| Publication Statement
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Madison, Wis. :: University of Wisconsin Press,, ©2006.
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Wisconsin studies in autobiography
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1 online resource (xii, 454 pages).
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| ISBN
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0299220508
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0299220508
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0299220540
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9780299220501
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9780299220549
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-454).
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| Contents
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Introduction : Living in public / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson -- An authentic statement of the case and conduct of Rose Butler, who was tried, convicted, and executed for the crime of arson (1819) / Rose Butler -- A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (as told to James E. Seaver) (1824) / Mary Jemison -- The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee (1836) / Jarena Lee -- Selections from Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839 (1863) / Fanny Kemble -- Transcription of speech given at the Akron Women's Rights Convention, from the Anti-slavery Bugle (June 21, 1851) / Sojourner Truth -- Selections from "Youth," from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852) / Margaret Fuller -- Testimony, given in Canada (1855) / Harriet Tubman -- A brief narrative of the life of Mrs. Adele M. Jewel (1869) / Adele M. Jewel -- Selections from her journals (1874/78) / M. Carey Thomas -- The Yakima affair, from Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims (1883) / Sarah Winnemucca -- An old woman and her recollections (as recorded by Thomas Savage) (1877) / Eulalia Pérez -- Beginning to work, from A New England girlhood (1889) / Lucy Larcom -- "Looking back on girlhood" (1892) / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The Club movement among colored women of America (1900) / Fannie Barrier Williams -- Sketches from The Atlantic monthly / Zitkala-Ša -- Nurslings of the sky, from The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Hunter Austin -- Mary MacLane meets the vampire on the isle of treacherous delights (1910) / Mary MacLane -- The promised land, from The promised land (1912) / Mary Antin -- Lives in The Independent and the question of race / Anonymous -- How I made my first big flight abroad : my flight across the English Channel (1912) / Harriet Quimby -- Autobiographical essays / Sui Sin Far -- Selections from Madeleine, an autobiography (1919) / "Madeleine."
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| Abstract
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The life narratives in this collection are by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition - some well known, some forgotten over generations - who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to adventurous new lives in a rapidly changing America. The engaging selections - from captivity narratives to letters, manifestos, criminal confessions, and childhood sketches - span a hundred years in which women increasingly asserted themselves publicly. Some rose to positions of prominence as writers, activists, and artists; some sought education or wrote to support themselves and their families; some transgressed social norms in search of new possibilities. Each woman's story is strikingly individual, yet the brief narratives in this anthology collectively chart bold new visions of women's agency.
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Autobiography-- Women authors.
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Women-- United States, Biography.
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Women-- United States-- History-- 19th century, Sources.
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Women-- United States-- History-- 20th century, Sources.
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Women's studies-- United States-- Biographical methods.
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Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
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Études sur les femmes-- États-Unis-- Méthode biographique.
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Femmes-- États-Unis, Biographies.
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Femmes-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 19e siècle, Sources.
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Femmes-- États-Unis-- Histoire-- 20e siècle, Sources.
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Autobiography-- Women authors.
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BIOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Social Scientists Psychologists.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Women's Studies.
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Women.
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Women's studies-- Biographical methods.
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Frau.
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United States.
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USA.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.4092/273B
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| LC Classification
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HQ1412.B44 2006eb
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| Added Entry
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Smith, Sidonie.
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Watson, Julia,1945-
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