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O my America!

second acts in a New World

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An edition of O my America! (2013)

O my America!

second acts in a New World

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After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as "Terra Incognita" and "The Magnetic North", Sara Wheeler rediscovered America thirty-five years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of six women who fled various sorts of trouble in nineteenth-century England and went to the United States to reinvent themselves. Her travel companions include Fanny Trollope, mother of Anthony and author of the biting "Domestic Manners of the Americans"; the actress Fanny Kemble, who shocked the nation with her passionate first-hand indictment of slavery; the prolifically pamphleteering economist Harriet Martineau; the homesteader Rebecca Burlend, who had never been more than twelve miles from her Yorkshire village before she sailed to the New World; the traveller Isabella Bird, whose many ailments remained in check as long as she was scaling the Rockies; and the novelist Catherine Hubback, niece of Jane Austen, who deposited her husband in a madhouse and rode the brand-new rails to San Francisco. Tough-minded outsiders, these women's truest qualities emerged in a country as incomplete and tentative as their native land was staid and settled. And they discovered second acts for themselves at a time when the world expected them to disappear politely.

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Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Language
English
Pages
267

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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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
920.72
Library of Congress
CT3203 .W544 2013, CT3234

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 267 pages
Number of pages
267

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Open Library
OL30128768M
Internet Archive
omyamericasecond0000whee
ISBN 10
0224090704, 1409029441
ISBN 13
9780224090704, 9781409029441
OCLC/WorldCat
819519298
Amazon ID (ASIN)

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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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