Crosshatch : Martha Schofield, the forgotten feminist (1839-1916) / Christina Larocco.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Larocco, Christina G., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quaker women--South Carolina--Biography.

Quaker women.

Quaker women--Pennsylvania--Biography.

Women teachers--South Carolina--Biography.

Women teachers.

Women teachers--Pennsylvania--Biography.

Abolitionists--United States--Biography.

Abolitionists.

Women's rights--United States--History.

Women's rights.

Schofield, Martha.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

251 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlestone, WV : Blackwater Press, [2025]

Summary:

"If Louisa May Alcott had imagined a fifth March sister, she might have been a lot like activist and educator Martha Schofield (1839-1916): passionate about equality, determined to break free from the restrictions of nineteenth-century society, yearning equally for both purpose and love. Crosshatch: Martha Schofield, the Forgotten Feminist (1839-1916), a 70,000-word biography in essays, introduces readers to Schofield, who became famous teaching free people in post-Civil War South Carolina. Weaving together research, personal experience, and cultural criticism, CROSSHATCH evokes the essayistic prose of Jenn Shapland, Rebecca Solnit, and Maggie Nelson. It will appeal to readers looking for untold stories of women, those coming to terms with the intertwined histories of race and gender, and those seeking a greater understanding of the relationship between the past and the present. The narrative follows Schofield from the Underground Railroad outposts of southeastern Pennsylvania to war-ravaged South Carolina. As an abolitionist, a women's suffragist, and a white teacher of Black students, she spent a lifetime attempting to develop (however imperfectly) an antiracist feminist vision. Schofield's letters and diaries, which I spent five years poring over and analyzing, also provide unparalleled access to the intimate details of her personal life: her love affairs with both women and men, her rocky mental and physical health, her thoughts as she watched wounded soldiers die after the Battle of Gettysburg or stared down Ku Klux Klan members during Reconstruction. Interspersed throughout the narrative are sections on what I learned from Schofield about my own place in history as a white woman and a feminist--lessons that deeply affected my understanding of the intersections of race and gender in our own time--and about the urgency of listening to women's voices, then and now."-- From author's website.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1963614089

9781963614084

OCLC:

1481728795

Publisher Number:

90101685404