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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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O My America!: Second Acts in a New World
2014, Penguin Random House
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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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- First American edition.
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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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