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The American Eve in fact and fiction, 1775-1914 Ernest Earnest.
LIBRA HQ1410 .E17
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating HQ1410 .E17
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Earnest, Ernest Penney, 1901-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--United States--History.
- Women.
- United States.
- History.
- Women--United States--Biography.
- Women in literature.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 280 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1974]
- Summary:
- This book provides "an illuminating comparison of the lives of American women of fiction with the true lives of girls and women as revealed in diaries, memoirs, and biographies from 1775 to 1914"--Dust jacket flap
- Contents:
- Prologue
- The revolutionary women
- The republican court
- Her infinite variety
- Girls and goddesses
- The door openers
- The crusaders
- Through a glass eye darkly
- The two nations
- Daisy and Jennie: the American girl in Europe
- The college girl, the Gibson girl, and the titaness
- The double bed
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 0252004485
- OCLC:
- 1055462
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