The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew

by Susan K. Harris

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The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess explores the influence well-placed, energetic women had on literary and political culture in the U.S. and in England in the years 1870-1920. Fields, an American, was first married to James T. Fields, a prominent Boston publisher; after his death she became companion to Sarah Orne Jewett, one of the foremost New England writers. Gladstone was a daughter of William Gladstone, one of Great Britain's...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1349635634

ISBN13:9781349635634

Release Date:November 2002

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:192 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

American Literature Books & Reading Classics Criticism & Theory Gender Studies History & Criticism History of Books Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature

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