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The Quack's Daughter. A True Story About the Private Life of a Victorian College Girl.
Greta Nettleton
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Description for The Quack's Daughter. A True Story About the Private Life of a Victorian College Girl.
Paperback. Num Pages: 356 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white halftones, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
Raised in the gritty Mississippi River town of Davenport, Iowa, Cora Keck could have walked straight out of a Susan Glaspell story. When Cora was sent to Vassar College in the fall of 1884, she was a typical unmotivated, newly rich party girl. Her improbable educational opportunity at “the first great educational institution for womankind” turned into an enthralling journey of self-discovery as she struggled to meet the high standards in Vassar’s School of Music while trying to shed her reputation as the daughter of a notorious quack and self-made millionaire: Mrs. Dr. Rebecca J. Keck, second only to Lydia ... Read more
Raised in the gritty Mississippi River town of Davenport, Iowa, Cora Keck could have walked straight out of a Susan Glaspell story. When Cora was sent to Vassar College in the fall of 1884, she was a typical unmotivated, newly rich party girl. Her improbable educational opportunity at “the first great educational institution for womankind” turned into an enthralling journey of self-discovery as she struggled to meet the high standards in Vassar’s School of Music while trying to shed her reputation as the daughter of a notorious quack and self-made millionaire: Mrs. Dr. Rebecca J. Keck, second only to Lydia ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Iowa Press United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781609382421
SKU
V9781609382421
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About Greta Nettleton
Greta Nettleton is a professional writer, editor and researcher who has worked for clients ranging from the World Bank to New York’s Seventh Avenue fashion industry. In addition to publishing articles and book excerpts about Cora’s unusual family in Chicago History, The Vassar Quarterly, American Ancestors Magazine, Wild West and Family Chronicle, she is working on a biography of Cora ... Read more
Reviews for The Quack's Daughter. A True Story About the Private Life of a Victorian College Girl.
“Readers hit the jackpot. . . . Greta Nettleton provides . . . a fascinating snapshot of life for women of the late 19th century. . . . Cora and her friends defy the Victorian stereotype.” - Kate Kelly, Huffington Post