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Civil War wives : the lives and times of Angelina Grimké Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant
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- ISBN: 9781400095780
- ISBN: 1400095786
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xiv, 361 p. : ill., ports. ; 25 cm. - Edition: 1st Vintage Civil War Library ed.
- Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2010.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-345) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Angelina Grimké Weld. "We are a nation of changes": America at the crossroads in the 1830s -- "I think much suffering awaits me": Angelina Grimké's journey to reform -- "Make me instrumental in the great work of emancipation": Angelina Grimké's letter to The liberator -- "This is all like a dream now; but I can't undream it": Angelina becomes an abolitionist -- "I laid my difficulty at the feet of Jesus": The burden of being a woman -- "You have had my whole heart": A season of surprises -- "We abolition women are turning the world upside down": Triumphs and retirement -- "I cannot tell thee how I love this private life": Angelina and domesticity -- "Innumerable, horrible, unspeakable, earthy, sensual and devilish distortions of married life": The crisis years at home -- This is not an in memoriam, it is a war-cry": The last years of Angelina Grimké. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | E 628 .B47 2010 | 30775305459449 | General Collection | Available | - |
Summary:
In the life stories of three "accidental heroes"--women whose marriages provided them with position and perspective they would not otherwise have had--one of the nation's premier historians offers a unique understanding of the tumultuous social and political landscape of their time.