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O my America!

six women and their second acts in a new world

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An edition of O my America! (2013)

O my America!

six women and their second acts in a new world

First American edition.

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Traces the steps of six women--author Fanny Trollope, actress Fanny Kemble, economist Harriet Martineau, homesteader Rebecca Burlend, traveler Isabella Bird, and novelist Catherine Hubback--who came to America in the nineteenth century to start new lives.

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Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Language
English
Pages
281

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Subjects
Social conditions, Women travelers, Biography, History, British, British, united states, United states, social conditions, Women, united states, biography, United states, history, 19th century, New York Times reviewed
Places
United States, British
Times
19th century

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O My America!: Second Acts in a New World
2014, Penguin Random House
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O my America!: second acts in a New World
2013, Jonathan Cape
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O my America!: six women and their second acts in a new world
2013, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Table of Contents

Merely telling the truth : Fanny Trollope goes to Ohio --
Brave new world : Fanny Kemble goes to Georgia --
A great embryo poet: Harriet Martineau goes to Massachusetts and Kentucky --
Is this America? : Rebecca Burlend goes to Illinois --
Above love and hate : Isabella Bird goes to Colorado --
No there there : Catherine Hubback goes to California.

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"Originally published, in somewhat different form, in 2013 by Jonathan Cape, Great Britain, as O my America! : second acts in a New World"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
973.9
Library of Congress
E184.B7 W45 2013,

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Pagination
xvii, 281 pages :
Number of pages
281

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26647618M
Internet Archive
omyamericasixwom0000whee
ISBN 10
0374298815, 1466836903, 0374534780
ISBN 13
9780374298814, 9781466836907, 9780374534783
LCCN
2013007572
OCLC/WorldCat
829098348
Amazon ID (ASIN)

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