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Author Hoffert, Sylvia D

Title Jane Grey Swisshelm : an unconventional life, 1815-1884 / Sylvia D. Hoffert
Published Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (255 pages) : illustrations
Contents That olde-time religion -- A marriage fraught with conflict -- The troublesome matter of property -- Woman's work in a man's world -- A different sort of politics -- A world in need of improvement -- Respectable but not genteel
Summary 19th-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman. While she struggled in private to be a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother; she publicly critiqued and successfully challenged gender conventions that restricted her personal behavior and limited her political and economic opportunities
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-245) and index
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Subject Swisshelm, Jane Grey, 1815-1884.
SUBJECT Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon, 1815-1884
Swisshelm, Jane Grey, 1815-1884 fast
Subject Feminists -- United States -- Biography
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography
Women newspaper editors -- United States -- Biography
Women -- Political activity -- United States -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory.
Feminists
Women newspaper editors
Women -- Political activity
Women social reformers
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
collective biographies.
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0807875880
9780807875889
9781469603612
1469603616