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Tempest-tossed : the spirit of Isabella Beecher Hooker / Susan Campbell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, Susan, 1959- author.
- Series:
- Garnet books.
- Garnet books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Feminists--United States--Biography.
- Feminists.
- Women social reformers--United States--Biography.
- Women social reformers.
- Hooker, Isabella Beecher, 1822-1907.
- Hooker, Isabella Beecher.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- First full-length biography of a key figure in nineteenth-century American culture
- Contents:
- Cover; Tempest-Tossed; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Preface; Genealogies; The Fabulous Beechers; Children of Isabella Beecher and John Hooker; 1. The World That Awaited Belle; 2. Training to Be a Beecher; 3. The Education of Isabella Beecher; 4. Isabella in Love; 5. Isabella Marries, and Faces a Conundrum; 6. Motherhood, and Confusion; 7. Abolition, and an Awakening; 8. A Woman's Worth, a Brother's Shame; 9. A Spiritual Digression; 10. In the Thick of It; 11. The Elusive Ballot; 12. The End, and a Legacy; Notes; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780819573889
- 0819573884
- OCLC:
- 871781428
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