Life Between the Lines: Books, Letters, Diaries, and the Lives of Women
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Life Between the Lines: Books, Letters, Diaries, and the Lives of Women
19.99 €
Girls and women of the Gilded Age found and lost themselves in books. Reading was learning and play, discipline and liberation, intellectual pleasure and inspiration for creativity, escapism and a way to spend time with family. How did reading become a cultural way of life, and the novel Little Women a rite of passage for an entire generation of teenage girls? Why were libraries perceived as a symbol of freedom? How did a love of literature spark ambition and imagination? Classical scholar Edith Hamilton and physician Alice Hamilton grew up surrounded by books. Martha Carey Thomas's family religion forbade reading, yet books became her greatest passion—her greatest pleasure and temptation. African American Ida Bell Wells was born into slavery, and her skill with words became her passport to the world as a teacher and journalist.
Historian and gender studies specialist Barbara Zicherman offers a new perspective on the literary and intellectual culture of the Gilded Age and the remarkable women who shaped it. In her work, Zicherman deeply explores the role of literature in the lives of women of the late 19th and early 20th centuries—their education, leisure, and reading. They frequented and founded women's reading rooms, organized literary circles, and, through books, found their identity as intellectuals and educators, researchers and social reformers who changed the world.
Historian and gender studies specialist Barbara Zicherman offers a new perspective on the literary and intellectual culture of the Gilded Age and the remarkable women who shaped it. In her work, Zicherman deeply explores the role of literature in the lives of women of the late 19th and early 20th centuries—their education, leisure, and reading. They frequented and founded women's reading rooms, organized literary circles, and, through books, found their identity as intellectuals and educators, researchers and social reformers who changed the world.
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