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No silent witness : the Eliot parsonage women and their Unitarian world / Cynthia Grant Tucker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tucker, Cynthia Grant.
- Series:
- Religion in America
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spouses of clergy--United States--Biography.
- Spouses of clergy.
- Wives--United States--Biography.
- Wives.
- Children of clergy--United States--Biography.
- Children of clergy.
- Daughters--United States--Biography.
- Daughters.
- Unitarian women--United States--Biography.
- Unitarian women.
- Unitarians--United States--Biography.
- Unitarians.
- Eliot, William Greenleaf, 1811-1887--Family.
- Eliot, William Greenleaf.
- Elliott family.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (355 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, U.K. ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This group biography follows three generations of ministers' daughters and wives in a famed American Unitarian family. Cynthia Tucker examines the Eliots, their religious tradition and the Eliot women's largely neglected female vocation.
- Contents:
- The Unitarian universe
- Calling the family together
- The rush of words
- Where words fail
- The voice coach
- Reduced to a whisper
- Talking back and taking flight
- A larger syntax
- New rules of engagement
- Old work and new
- No parting word.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed Sept. 7, 2010).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-307) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-988923-6
- 0-19-978014-5
- 9786613039910
- 1-283-03991-5
- OCLC:
- 922970168
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