O my America! : six women and their second acts in a new world /
Traces the steps of six women--author Fanny Trollope, actress Fanny Kemble, economist Harriet Martineau, homesteader Rebecca Burlend, traveler Isabella Bird ,and novelist Catherine Hubback--who came to America in the nineteenth century to start new lives.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2013.
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| Edition: | First American edition. |
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| Summary: | Traces the steps of six women--author Fanny Trollope, actress Fanny Kemble, economist Harriet Martineau, homesteader Rebecca Burlend, traveler Isabella Bird ,and novelist Catherine Hubback--who came to America in the nineteenth century to start new lives. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published, in somewhat different form, in 2013 by Jonathan Cape, Great Britain, as O my America! : second acts in a New World"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 281 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780374298814 (hardcover) 0374298815 (hardcover) |