The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780822314851)

For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker. Although best known today for having edited Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, she pioneered almost every department of nineteenth-century American letters--the historical novel, the short story, children's literature, the domestic advice book, women's history, antislavery fiction, journalism, and the literature of aging. Offering a panoramic view of a nation and culture in flux, this innovative cultural biography (originally published by Duke University Press in 1994) recreates the world as well as the life of a major nineteenth-figure whose career as a writer and social reformer encompassed issues central to American history.

Author: Carolyn L. Karcher
ISBN-10: 0822314851
ISBN-13: 9780822314851
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/04/1994
Pages: 832
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.90lbs
Size: 10.30h x 7.30w x 1.80d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 11/15/1994 pg. 561
Library Journal 12/01/1994 pg. 102
Publishers Weekly 12/05/1994 pg. 64
Kirkus Reviews 10/15/1994 pg. 1387