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Jane Grey Swisshelm : an unconventional life, 1815-1884 / Sylvia D. Hoffert.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffert, Sylvia D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminists--United States--Biography.
- Feminists.
- Women social reformers--United States--Biography.
- Women social reformers.
- Women newspaper editors--United States--Biography.
- Women newspaper editors.
- Women--Political activity--United States--Biography.
- Women.
- Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon, 1815-1884.
- Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (266 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- As owner & editor of newspapers in three American cities & one of the founders of the Minnesota Republican Party, Swisshelm negotiated a significant place for herself in the male dominated worlds of commerce, journalism & politics - no mean feat in 19th century America.
- Contents:
- That olde-time religion
- A marriage fraught with conflict
- The troublesome matter of property
- Woman's work in a man's world
- A different sort of politics
- A world in need of improvement
- Respectable but not genteel.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908770-7-9
- 979-88-9313-155-0
- 0-8078-7588-0
- 1-4696-0361-6
- OCLC:
- 62164957
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