Raising more hell and fewer dahlias : the public life of Charlotte Smith, 1840-1917 / Autumn Stanley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stanley, Autumn, 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smith, Charlotte, 1840-1917.

Smith, Charlotte.

Women social reformers--United States--Biography.

Women social reformers.

Women--United States--Social conditions--19th century.

Women.

Social action--United States--History--19th century.

Social action.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bethlehem [Pa.] : Lehigh University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the first biography of nineteenth-century magazine editor and reformer Charlotte Smith. Based on years of research, and previously untapped sources, it shows both why she should be remembered and why she was forgotten. Her story is quintessentially American: this daughter of Irish immigrants, despite having only a grade-school education and supporting two children alone, became a force to be reckoned with, first in journalism and then in reform. Her first periodical, the Inland Monthly, was doubly rare: edited by a woman but not a women's magazine; and a profitable venture, bringing a large sum when sold.

Contents:

Beginnings

A divided family in occupied Memphis: Charlotte Smith's Civil War

Carpetbagging and marriage: the postwar years, 1865-1871

St. Louis revisited: the Inland monthly years, 1872-1878

The capital years, part I: Washington, DC, 1879-1885

The capital years, part II: baby brother and the bete noire: Robert Odlum, Paul Boyton, and the Brooklyn Bridge, 1885

The capital years, part III: Washington, DC, 1886-1892

The Boston traveler: final years, 1892-1917.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-230) and index.

ISBN:

0-8453-4291-6

OCLC:

694147598