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A hairdresser's experience in high life / Eliza Potter ; edited and with an introduction by Xiomara Santamarina.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Potter, Eliza.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--United States--History--19th century.
- Women.
- African Americans--Ohio--Cincinnati--Biography.
- African Americans.
- Beauty operators--Ohio--Cincinnati--Biography.
- Beauty operators.
- United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865.
- United States.
- Cincinnati (Ohio)--Biography.
- Cincinnati (Ohio).
- Potter, Eliza. Hairdresser's experience in high life.
- Potter, Eliza.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Hairdresser's Experience in High Life
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Text; INTRODUCTION; A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life; THE AUTHOR'S APPEAL; 1. My Debut; 2. England; 3. America; 4. Saratoga; 5. Leaving Saratoga-Burning of the Baggage Car-Visit to New York; 6. Newport-The Maid's Story; 7. Minnie; 8. Natchez-New Orleans; 9. Cincinnati; APPENDIX A: Biographical Information on Eliza Potter (1820?-1893); APPENDIX B: Newspaper Reviews of A Hairdresser's Experience in High Life; Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-908817-9-3
- 979-88-9313-271-7
- 1-4696-0531-7
- 0-8078-9866-X
- OCLC:
- 646872608
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