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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pfeffer, Miki (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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.