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Published on: 2010-04-15
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In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America's Gilded Age who lost--and found--themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them. Some women, like Edith and Alice Hamilton, M. Carey Thomas, and Jane Addams, grew up in households filled with books, while less privileged women found alternative routes to expressive literacy. Jewish immigrants Hilda Satt Polacheck, Rose Cohen, and Mary Antin acquired new identities in the English-language books they found in settlement houses and libraries, while African Americans like Ida B. Wells relied mainly on institutions of their own creation, even as they sought to develop a literature of their own. It is Sicherman's masterful contribution to show that however the skill of reading was acquired, under the right circumstances, adolescent reading was truly transformative in constructing female identity, stirring imaginations, and fostering ambition. With Little Women's Jo March often serving as a youthful model of independence, girls and young women created communities of learning, imagination, and emotional connection around literary activities in ways that helped them imagine, and later attain, public identities. Reading themselves into quest plots and into male as well as female roles, these young women went on to create an unparalleled record of achievement as intellectuals, educators, and social reformers. Sicherman's graceful study reveals the centrality of the era's culture of reading and sheds new light on these women's Progressive-Era careers. Manic D Press: Great Books Since 1984 The Wonderful World of MANIC D PRESS Books... Welcome to the online Manic D store serving all of your eclectic reading & printed matter needs... with print ... Dead Sea Scrolls prove Bible unoriginal - Freethought Nation Over the years news items have circulated about how hints and insights contained in the original texts among the famous Dead Sea Scrolls discovered in ... The Neglected Books Page - NeglectedBooks.com: Where ... From These Modern Women: Autobiographical Essays from the Twenties edited and with a revised introduction by Elaine Showalter New York City: The Feminist Press 1989 Michael Jackson's Library Favorite Books Michael Jackson ... Michael Jackson's Library Favorite Books ... The books that Michael Jackson loved or owned at Neverland. Fiction black history inspirational poetry biographies ... The Best Books: The Top 100 Novels of All Time - Listmuse.com The Best Books: The Top 100 Novels of All Time A contemporary list with an international flavour and a respect for the classics The Best Books: Top 100 Novels of ... The Greatest Books: The Best Books Since 2000 - 2 to 100 The greatest fiction books since 2000(51 to 100) determined by 107 lists and articles from various critics authors and experts. Coastal 181 - NEW BOOKS THUNDER ROAD: A Photographic Journey of Open Wheel Racing Carnivals and the Iconic Highways they Travel by Tom Toutz Travel along the Thunder Road with Ricoh and ... The Best Books I Read in 2013 Catholic World Report ... The Best Books I Read in 2013 Featuring contributions from Dana Gioia Anthony Esolen Thomas Howard Michael Coren Joseph Pearce James V. Schall Brandon ... The 100 Essential Books You Should Have Read in College ... Share this article. Twitter; Facebook; Google+; The 100 Essential Books You Should Have Read in College. July 30th 2009 by Staff Writers Erotica Revealed - Books Written by American Casanova: The New Adventures of the Legendary Lover Edited By: Maxim Jakubowski Contributions By: M.Christian Michael Crawley Carole Ann Davis O'Neil De ...
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