Before They Could Vote: American Women's Autobiographical Writing, 1819–1919Sidonie Smith, Julia Watson University of Wisconsin Press, 20/06/2006 - 454 من الصفحات The life narratives in this collection are by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition—some well known, some forgotten over generations—who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to adventurous new lives in a rapidly changing America. The engaging selections—from captivity narratives to letters, manifestos, criminal confessions, and childhood sketches—span a hundred years in which women increasingly asserted themselves publicly. Some rose to positions of prominence as writers, activists, and artists; some sought education or wrote to support themselves and their families; some transgressed social norms in search of new possibilities. Each woman’s story is strikingly individual, yet the brief narratives in this anthology collectively chart bold new visions of women’s agency. |
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... feeling that I ought not to give way to it . Miss Hicks has no generous abandon in study - her companionship did not ... feel except when she is angry as if she were really saying what she feels with all her heart . In her manners she ...
... feel deprived all these years . Mary and I talked till eleven o'clock and had an elegant time . I like her very much — there is a sort of sweet strength about her . There are so many points we have in common sympathy . There is ...
... feel the first consciousness of a relationship to the great social forces that include whole nationalities in the sweep of their influ- ences . To feel that you are something better than a slave , or a descend- ant of an ex - slave , to ...
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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs Mary Jemison | 37 |
The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena | 124 |
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