Southern ladies and suffragists : Julia Ward Howe and women's rights at the 1884 New Orleans World's Fair /
This book chronicles the successes and setbacks of a lively cast of postbellum women in the first Woman's Department at a world's fair in the Deep South. From a wide range of primary documents, Miki Pfeffer re-creates the sounds and sights of 1884 New Orleans after the Civil War and Recons...
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- What the ladies were saying
- The principals
- An immense responsibility
- The locals
- A city for women
- The chiefdom
- Thimbles and a teapot
- Great expectations
- Work, the new gospel of womanhood
- February festivities
- Opening at last
- When powerful women came to town
- Exhibits great and small
- April showers of reproach
- May distractions
- Final battles
- Endings.