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 - Spur Up Your Pegasus: Family Letters of Salmon, Kate, and Nettie Chase, 1844-1873 - 9780873389884 - V9780873389884
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Spur Up Your Pegasus: Family Letters of Salmon, Kate, and Nettie Chase, 1844-1873

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Description for Spur Up Your Pegasus: Family Letters of Salmon, Kate, and Nettie Chase, 1844-1873 Hardcover. Contains letters from politician Salmon P Chase to his daughters, from his daughters to him and to each other - that span from when Kate, his older daughter, was a young child and Nettie not yet born to their father's death in 1873. This title provides insights into the personal lives and private thoughts of a prominent political family. Editor(s): McClure, James P.; Lamphier, Peg A.; Kreger, Erika M. Num Pages: 544 pages, illustrations, notes, biblio., index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BJ; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 36. Weight in Grams: 930.
Married three times, Salmon P. Chase lost four children in infancy. Two daughters survived to adulthood and were their father's companions during his service as a U.S. senator from Ohio, governor of Ohio, Abraham Lincoln's secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Kate, his older daughter, acted as an unofficial political advisor to her father and was a prominent Washington, D.C., hostess, while Nettie eschewed a life in the public eye, becoming a wife, mother, and creator of children's books.Often separated from his family due to the demands of his career as a lawyer and antislavery politician, Chase maintained his relationship with his daughters by the frequent exchange of letters. Chase's letters show an ambitious father trying to school his daughters from afar, admonishing them to study and encouraging them to develop self-discipline and personal responsibility. The letters in this volume - from Chase to his daughters, from his daughters to him and to each other - span from when Kate was a young child and Nettie not yet born to their father's death in 1873.This collection of correspondence, many letters previously unpublished, stresses familial relationships, the daughters' education, and the role of women in nineteenth-century America. ""Spur Up Your Pegasus"" provides important insights into the personal lives and private thoughts of a prominent political family.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Kent, OH, United States
ISBN
9780873389884
SKU
V9780873389884
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About
James P. McClure is a senior associate editor of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson at Princeton University and was previously with the editorial staff of the Salmon P. Chase Papers in Claremont, California. Peg A. Lamphier is a lecturer in history at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. She is the author of Kate Chase and William Sprague: Politics and Gender in a Civil War Marriage. Erika M. Kreger is currently Graduate School Director of Development at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her work on nineteenth-century women's literary history includes articles in Nineteenth-Century Literature, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, and Studies in American Humor.

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