| Description |
xii, 454 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Wisconsin studies in autobiography |
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Wisconsin studies in autobiography.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Introduction: Lives in Public: Women Writing Autobiographically, 1819¿1919 000 -- Rose Butler. An Authentic Statement of the Case and Conduct of Rose Butler, who was tried, convicted, and executed for the crime of arson. 1819. 000 -- Mary Jemison. From A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (as told to James E. Seaver). 1824. 000 -- Jarena Lee. From The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee. 1836. 000 -- Fanny Kemble. From Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation, 1838 ¿39. 1863. 000 -- Margaret Fuller. Selections from ¿Youth.¿ In Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli. 1852. 000 -- Adele Jewel. ¿A Brief Narrative of the Life of Adele Jewel.¿ 1869. 000 -- M. Carey Thomas. From her ¿Early Journals.¿ 1874/78. 000 -- Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. From¿The Yakima Affair.¿ From Life Among the Piutes. 1872. 000 -- Eulalia Pérez. ¿A Life and Its Memories¿ (as told to Thomas Savage). 1877. 000 -- Lucy Larcom.¿Beginning to Work.¿ From A New England Girlhood. 1889. 000 -- Sarah Orne Jewett. ¿Looking Back on Girlhood.¿ 1892. 000 -- Fannie Barrier Williams. ¿The Club Movement among Colored Women in America.¿ 1900. 000 -- Zitkala ¿a. ¿Impressions of an Indian Childhood.¿¿School Days of an Indian Girl.¿ ¿An Indian Teacher among the Indians.¿¿Why I Am a Pagan.¿ 1900¿02, 1914. 000 -- Mary Austin.¿Nurslings of the Sky.¿ From The Land of Little Rain. 1903. 000 -- Mary MacLane. ¿Mary MacLane Meets the Vampire on the Isle of Treacherous Delights.¿ 1910. 000 -- Mary Antin. ¿The Promised Land.¿ From The Promised Land. 1912. 000 -- Anonymous --¿¿More Slavery at the South ¿ by a Negro Nurse.¿ From The Independent. 1912. 000 -- ¿¿Experiences of the Race Problem¿¿by a Southern White Woman.¿ From The Independent. 1904. 000 -- ¿ ¿The Race Problem¿An Autobiography¿ by a Southern Colored Woman.¿ From The Independent. 1904. 000 -- ¿¿Observations of the Southern Race Feeling¿ by a Northern Woman. ¿ From The Independent. 1904. 000 -- Harriet Quimby. "How I Made My First Big Flight Abroad: My Flight Across the English Channel." 1912. 000 -- Sui Sin Far. ¿Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian.¿ ¿Sui Sin Far, the Half-Chinese Writer, Tells of Her Career.¿ 1909/10, 1913. 000 --¿Madeleine.¿ From Madeleine: An Autobiography. 1919. 000 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-454) |
| Subject |
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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Autobiography -- Women authors.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
Smith, Sidonie.
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Watson, Julia, 1945-
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| LC no. |
2006006984 |
| ISBN |
9780299220501 cased |
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0299220508 cased |
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9780299220549 paperback |
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0299220540 paperback |
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