An edition of Circumstances are destiny (2006)

Circumstances are destiny

an Antebellum woman's struggle to define sphere

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An edition of Circumstances are destiny (2006)

Circumstances are destiny

an Antebellum woman's struggle to define sphere

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Circumstances are destiny: an Antebellum woman's struggle to define sphere
2006, Kent State University Press
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Table of Contents

1827-1848 : "The impress of the Connecticut character"
1848-1853 : "It is my first desire to be a blessing to my husband and
train up my child in the way of virtue and religion"
1853-1857 : "Her influence at home
may sway the destinies of the world"
October 1857-January 1858 : "I sometimes think my whole being is changed"
December 1857-May 1858 : "Yet I live a life they know not of"
June 1858-December 1858 : "Eleven years ago to day since I took upon myself the cares of a housekeeper"
November 1858-November 1859 : "I wish for a 'bright little isle' to be peopled with the good, the loving, the gifted"
November 1859-February 1861 : "I am accomplishing nothing"
February 1861-November 1861 : "Dark and fearful must be the struggle"
September 1861-December 1862 : "He is the true patriot
whose patriotism is only another term for the love of truth, justice and humanity"
September 1862-April 1865 : "And we women
can only wait, and wait"
February 1865-July 1900 : "If I only could leave behind all the darkness and forget the past".

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (master's)--Illinois State University, Normal, Ill., 2002.

Published in
Kent, Ohio
Series
Civil war in the North
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
977.1/3403092, B
Library of Congress
F499.C384 B73 2006

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Pagination
p. cm.

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3415473M
ISBN 10
087338864X
ISBN 13
9780873388641
LCCN
2005031674
OCLC/WorldCat
62281786
Library Thing
4704558
Goodreads
58633

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OL5839237W

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