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O my America! : six women and their second acts in a new world / Sara Wheeler.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection E184.B7 W45 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wheeler, Sara.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- British--United States--History--19th century.
- British.
- Women travelers--United States--History--19th century.
- Women travelers.
- Women travelers--United States--Biography.
- United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Travel literature.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 281 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
- Summary:
- Traces the steps of six women who came to America in the nineteenth century to start new lives.
- Contents:
- Merely telling the truth : Fanny Trollope goes to Ohio
- Brave new world : Fanny Kemble goes to Georgia
- A great embryo poet: Harriet Martineau goes to Massachusetts and Kentucky
- Is this America? : Rebecca Burlend goes to Illinois
- Above love and hate : Isabella Bird goes to Colorado
- No there there : Catherine Hubback goes to California.
- Notes:
- "Originally published, in somewhat different form, in 2013 by Jonathan Cape, Great Britain, as O my America! : second acts in a New World"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Burt fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780374298814 (hardcover)
- 0374298815 (hardcover)
- OCLC:
- 829098348
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