Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke by Efford, Alison Clark

Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820360225)

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Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke by Efford, Alison Clark

Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke

$126.95
Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke by Efford, Alison Clark

Radical Relationships: The Civil War-Era Correspondence of Mathilde Franziska Anneke

$126.95
Format: Hardcover
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This collection of intimate letters reveals the remarkable radicalism--personal and political--of Mathilde Franziska Anneke. Anneke first became a well-known feminist and democrat in Prussia, earning notoriety for divorcing her first husband and fighting in the German Revolutions of 1848-1849. After moving to the United States, she became a noted proponent of woman suffrage, working with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Like many other refugees of the German revolutions, Anneke was deeply involved in the Civil War.

Radical Relationships focuses on the years 1859-1865, which encompassed not only the war but also Anneke's intense romantic friendship with Yankee abolitionist Mary Booth. Over the course of seven years, Anneke supported Mary through her husband's trial for rape. When Sherman Booth was later imprisoned for his abolitionist activity, Anneke conspired to spring him from jail. The two women then moved with three of their children to Zürich, Switzerland, where they collaborated on antislavery fiction and mixed with leading European radicals such as Ferdinand Lassalle. From Europe, they followed the fate of German-born soldiers in the Union army, including Anneke's husband, Fritz, and his court martial. Throughout her career, Anneke's intimate relationships informed her politics and sustained her activism. Her correspondence with Fritz and Mary Booth provides fresh perspectives on the transnational dimensions of the Civil War and gender and sexuality.

Author: Alison Clark Efford
ISBN-10: 0820360228
ISBN-13: 9780820360225
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2021
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
By Alison Clark Efford
By Alison Clark Efford
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Alison Clark Efford (Editor)
ALISON CLARK EFFORD lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is an associate professor of history at Marquette University. She is the author of German Immigrants, Race, and Citizenship in the Civil War Era. Her essays and articles have appeared in journals such as the Missouri Historical Review and the Journal of the Civil War Era and in several edited collections.

Viktorija Bilic (Editor)
VIKTORIJA BILIC lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and is an associate professor of translation and interpreting studies at the University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. She is the author of Historische amerikanische und deutsche Briefsammlungen: Alltagstexte als Gegenstand des Kooperativen Übersetzens.

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