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Christine: Or Woman´s Trials and Triumphs

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Description for Christine: Or Woman´s Trials and Triumphs paperback. A nineteenth-century radical women's rights novel that tells the story of a young woman's efforts to earn respect and autonomy as a women's rights lecturer Editor(s): Kohn, Denise M. Series: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers. Num Pages: 432 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 27. Weight in Grams: 564.
When Laura Curtis Bullard wrote the novel Christine in 1856, she created one of antebellum America’s most radical heroines: a woman’s rights leader. Addressing the major social, political, and cultural issues surrounding women from within an unusually overt feminist framework for its time, Christine openly challenges a social and legal system that denies women full and equal rights. Christine defies her family, rejects marriage, and leaves a job as a teacher to embark on her career, rewriting the script for a successful nineteenth-century heroine. Along the way, she recreates domesticity on her own terms, helping other young women gain economic independence ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Series
Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803213609
SKU
V9780803213609
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About Laura Curtis Bullard
Laura Curtis Bullard (1831–1912) published her first novel, Now-a-days, in 1854. The following year, she founded and edited her own newspaper, The Ladies Visitor, and Drawing Room Companion, and in 1856 she published Christine. She later succeeded Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as editor of the radical suffrage newspaper The Revolution. Denise M. Kohn is an associate professor ... Read more

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