Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Margaret Fuller
Publisher:
Published: 1845
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13:
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Women in 19th-century America
Author: Fiona Macdonald
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13: 9780872265660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the everyday life of women in the United States during the 1800s, contrasting society's ideal view of women with their real lives.
Black Women in Nineteenth-Century American Life
Author: Bert James Loewenberg
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0271038241
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSingle, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South
Author: Marie S. Molloy
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2018-07-15
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1611178711
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA broad and eloquent study on the relatively overlooked population of single women in the slaveholding South Single, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South investigates the lives of unmarried white women—from the pre- to the post-Civil War South—within a society that placed high value on women's marriage and motherhood. Marie S. Molloy examines female singleness to incorporate non-marriage, widowhood, separation, and divorce. These single women were not subject to the laws and customs of coverture, in which females were covered or subject to the governance of fathers, brothers, and husbands, and therefore lived with greater autonomy than married women. Molloy contends that the Civil War proved a catalyst for accelerating personal, social, economic, and legal changes for these women. Being a single woman during this time often meant living a nuanced life, operating within a tight framework of traditional gender conventions while manipulating them to greater advantage. Singleness was often a route to autonomy and independence that over time expanded and reshaped traditional ideals of southern womanhood. Molloy delves into these themes and their effects through the lens of the various facets of the female life: femininity, family, work, friendship, law, and property. By examining letters and diaries of more than three hundred white, native-born, southern women, Molloy creates a broad and eloquent study on the relatively overlooked population of single women in both the urban and plantation slaveholding South. She concludes that these women were, in various ways, pioneers and participants of a slow, but definite process of change in the antebellum era.
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing
Author: Dale M. Bauer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-11-15
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1139826085
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProviding an overview of the history of writing by women in the period, this 2001 Companion establishes the context in which this writing emerged, and traces the origin of the terms which have traditionally defined the debate. It includes essays on topics of recent concern, such as women and war, erotic violence, the liberating and disciplinary effects of religion, and examines the work of a variety of women writers, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rebecca Harding Davis and Louisa May Alcott. The volume plots new directions for the study of American literary history, and provides several valuable tools for students, including a chronology of works and suggestions for further reading.
The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers
Author: Hollis Robbins
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-07-25
Total Pages: 673
ISBN-13: 0143130676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA landmark collection documenting the social, political, and artistic lives of African American women throughout the tumultuous nineteenth century. Named one of NPR's Best Books of 2017. The Portable Nineteenth-Century African American Women Writers is the most comprehensive anthology of its kind: an extraordinary range of voices offering the expressions of African American women in print before, during, and after the Civil War. Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections of memoir, poetry, and essays on feminism, education, and the legacy of African American women writers. Many of these pieces engage with social movements like abolition, women’s suffrage, temperance, and civil rights, but the thematic center is the intellect and personal ambition of African American women. The diverse selection includes well-known writers like Sojourner Truth, Hannah Crafts, and Harriet Jacobs, as well as lesser-known writers like Ella Sheppard, who offers a firsthand account of life in the world-famous Fisk Jubilee Singers. Taken together, these incredible works insist that the writing of African American women writers be read, remembered, and addressed. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
All-American Girl
Author: Frances B. Cogan
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0820337943
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOur image of nineteenth-century American women is generally divided into two broad classifications: victims and revolutionaries. This divide has served the purposes of modern feminists well, allowing them to claim feminism as the only viable role model for women of the nineteenth century. In All-American Girl, however, Frances B. Cogan identifies amid these extremes a third ideal of femininity: the “Real Woman.” Cogan's Real Woman exists in advice books and manuals, as well as in magazine short stories whose characters did not dedicate their lives to passivity or demand the vote. Appearing in the popular reading of middle-class America from 1842 to 1880, these women embodied qualities that neither the “True Women”—conventional ladies of leisure—nor the early feminists fully advocated, such as intelligence, physical fitness, self sufficiency, economic self-reliance, judicious marriage, and a balance between self and family. Cogan's All-American Girl reveals a system of feminine values that demanded women be neither idle nor militant.
Activist Sentiments
Author: Pier Gabrielle Foreman
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0252076648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining how nineteenth-century Black women writers engaged radical reform, sentiment and their various readerships
A History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry
Author: Jennifer Putzi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-12-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781107083981
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of Nineteenth-Century American Women's Poetry is the first book to construct a coherent history of the field and focus entirely on women's poetry of the period. With contributions from some of the most prominent scholars of nineteenth-century American literature, it explores a wide variety of authors, texts, and methodological approaches. Organized into three chronological sections, the essays examine multiple genres of poetry, consider poems circulated in various manuscript and print venues, and propose alternative ways of narrating literary history. From these essays, a rich story emerges about a diverse poetics that was once immensely popular but has since been forgotten. This History confirms that the field has advanced far beyond the recovery of select individual poets. It will be an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and critics of both the literature and the history of this era.
The Nineteenth-Century Woman
Author: Sara Delamont
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0415623200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century. Throughout the book evidence from both the USA and UK shows that feminists had to operate in a restricting and complex social environment in which the concept of "the lady" and the ideal of the saintly mother defined the nineteenth-century woman’s cultural and physical world.
