Emma Spaulding Bryant

Name: Emma Spaulding Bryant
Brand: Fordham University Press
SKU: 9780823222742
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Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger's Wife, Ardent Feminist: Letters 1860-1900

Autor: Emma Spaulding Bryant

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Emma Spaulding's life might have been the simple story of a nineteenth-century woman in rural Maine....

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Autor

Emma Spaulding Bryant

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2006

Pagini

518

EAN

9780823222742

ISBN

0823222748

Enbook ID

04940596

Editura

Fordham University Press

Greutate

716

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 31

Descriere completă

Emma Spaulding's life might have been the simple story of a nineteenth-century woman in rural Maine. Instead, wooed by the ambitious John Emory Bryant, the Yankee Reconstruction activist and Georgia politician, she became the Civil War bride of a Republican carpetbagger intent on reforming the South. The grueling years in the shadow of her husband's controversial political career gave her a backbone of steel and the convictions of an early feminist. Emma supported John's agenda-to northernizethe South and work for civil rights for African-Americans- and frequently reflected on national political events. Struggling virtually alone to rear a daughter in near poverty, Emma became an independent thinker, suffragist, and officer in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. In eloquent letters, Emma coached her husband's understanding of the woman question;their remarkable correspondence frames a marriage of love and summarizes John's career as it determined the contours of Emma's own story-from the bitter politics of Reconstruction Georgia to her world as a mother, writer, editor, and teacher in Tennessee and, with her husband, running a mission for the homeless in New York.In this extraordinary resource, Ruth Douglas Currie organizes and edits their voluminous correspondence, enhancing the letters with an extensive introduction to Emma Spaulding Bryant's life, times, and legacy.

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