The First Woman in the Republic(English, Paperback, Karcher Carolyn L.)

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The First Woman in the Republic(English, Paperback, Karcher Carolyn L.) is written by Karcher Carolyn L. and published by Duke University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0822321637 (ISBN 10) and 9780822321637 (ISBN 13).

For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States. Hardly a sphere of nineteenth-century life can be found in which Lydia Maria Child did not figure prominently as a pathbreaker. Although best known today for having edited Harriet A. Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, she pioneered almost every department of nineteenth-century American letters-the historical novel, the short story, children's literature, the domestic advice book, women's history, antislavery fiction, journalism, and the literature of aging. Offering a panoramic view of a nation and culture in flux, this innovative cultural biography (originally published by Duke University Press in 1994) recreates the world as well as the life of a major nineteenth-figure whose career as a writer and social reformer encompassed issues central to American history.