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Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
Claiming the Pen Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
Author: Catherine Kerrison
In 1710, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy’s plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in white southern women’s lives. Claiming the Pen offers the fir...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780801443442
ISBN-10: 080144344X
Publication Date: 11/10/2005
Pages: 288
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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