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Books Books 1 - 10 of about 36 citing American women writers and the work of history, 1790-1860. 

Romances of the Republic : Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature ...

Romances of the Republic : Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature ...

Shirley Samuels Associate Professor of English Cornell University - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 208 pages
Romances of the Republic contributes to the lively field of scholarship on the interconnection of ideology and history in early American literature. Shirley Samuels illustrates ...
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Aesthetics and gender in American literature: portraits of the woman artist

Aesthetics and gender in American literature: portraits of the woman artist

Deborah Barker - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 258 pages
This study demonstrates how popular women writers used the female visual artist as their alter ego to renegotiate the boundaries between high and low culture. The figure of the ...
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Daily Life In The Early American Republic, 1790-1820: Creating A New Nation

Daily Life In The Early American Republic, 1790-1820: Creating A New Nation

David S. Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler - Social Science - 2004 - 236 pages
Presents a history of everyday life during the early Republic, discussing marriage and family, farming, factory employment, money, leisure activities, religion, education ...
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A comprehensive study of American writer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911 ...

A comprehensive study of American writer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911 ...

Ronna Coffey Privett - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 291 pages
What CHOICE says: Privett (Lubbock Christian Univ.) has delivered on the promise of the title of this ambitious volume, which indeed provides a comprehensive study of Phelps ...
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A passionate usefulness: the life and literary labors of Hannah Adams

A passionate usefulness: the life and literary labors of Hannah Adams

Gary D. Schmidt - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 454 pages
In a literary environment dominated by men, the first American to earn a living as a writer and to establish a reputation on both sides of the Atlantic was, miraculously, a ...
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A Sherwood Bonner Sampler, 1869-1884: What a Bright, Educated, Witty, Lively ...
Aesthetics and gender in American literature: portraits of the woman artist

Aesthetics and gender in American literature: portraits of the woman artist

Deborah Barker - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 258 pages
This study demonstrates how popular women writers used the female visual artist as their alter ego to renegotiate the boundaries between high and low culture. The figure of the ...
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American Women Historians: 1700s - 1990s ; a Biographical Dictionary

American Women Historians: 1700s - 1990s ; a Biographical Dictionary

Scanlon, Jennifer, Cosner, Shaaron - History - 1996 - 269 pages
Profiles numerous women historians from diverse backgrounds. Explores women historians' motivations, accomplishments, and above all, rich legacies.
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American women historians, 1700s-1990s: a biographical dictionary

American women historians, 1700s-1990s: a biographical dictionary

Jennifer Scanlon, Shaaron Cosner - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 269 pages
Profiles numerous women historians from diverse backgrounds. Explores women historians' motivations, accomplishments, and above all, rich legacies.
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Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction

Susan M. Griffin - Religion - 2004 - 284 pages
Griffin analyses anti-Catholic fiction written between the 1830s and the turn of the century in both Britain and America.
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