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America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195161458)
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xOne of the most celebrated women of her time, a spellbinding speaker dubbed the Queen of the Lyceum and America's Joan of Arc, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson was a charismatic orator, writer, and actress, who rose to fame during the Civil War and remained in the public eye for the next three decades.
J. Matthew Gallman offers the first full-length biography of Dickinson to appear in over half a century. Gallman describes how Dickinson's passionate patriotism and fiery style, coupled with her unabashed abolitionism and biting critiques of antiwar Democrats--known as Copperheads--struck a nerve with her audiences. In barely two years, she rose from an unknown young Philadelphia radical, to a successful New England stump speaker, to a true national celebrity. At the height of her fame, Dickinson counted many of the nation's leading reformers, authors, politicians, and actors among her friends. Among the dozens of famous figures who populate the narrative are Susan B. Anthony, Whitelaw Reid, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Gallman shows how Dickinson's life illuminates the possibilities and barriers faced by nineteenth-century women, revealing how their behavior could at once be seen as worthy, highly valued, shocking, and deviant.
Author: J. Matthew Gallman
ISBN-10: 0195161459
ISBN-13: 9780195161458
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2006
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.44w x 0.95d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/27/2006 pg. 49
Library Journal 04/01/2006 pg. 103
Booklist 04/15/2006 pg. 23
J. Matthew Gallman offers the first full-length biography of Dickinson to appear in over half a century. Gallman describes how Dickinson's passionate patriotism and fiery style, coupled with her unabashed abolitionism and biting critiques of antiwar Democrats--known as Copperheads--struck a nerve with her audiences. In barely two years, she rose from an unknown young Philadelphia radical, to a successful New England stump speaker, to a true national celebrity. At the height of her fame, Dickinson counted many of the nation's leading reformers, authors, politicians, and actors among her friends. Among the dozens of famous figures who populate the narrative are Susan B. Anthony, Whitelaw Reid, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Gallman shows how Dickinson's life illuminates the possibilities and barriers faced by nineteenth-century women, revealing how their behavior could at once be seen as worthy, highly valued, shocking, and deviant.
Author: J. Matthew Gallman
ISBN-10: 0195161459
ISBN-13: 9780195161458
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2006
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.44w x 0.95d
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/27/2006 pg. 49
Library Journal 04/01/2006 pg. 103
Booklist 04/15/2006 pg. 23
By J. Matthew Gallman
xJ. Matthew Gallman is Professor of History at the University of Florida. An authority on the American Civil War, he is the author of Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855; The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front; and Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War.
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