Anti-Slavery Begins at Home
Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, 25 May 1995
The First Woman of the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child
by Carolyn Karcher.
Duke, 804 pp., £35.95, March 1995,0 8223 1485 1 Show More
by Carolyn Karcher.
Duke, 804 pp., £35.95, March 1995,
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
by Joan Hedrick.
Oxford, 507 pp., £25, March 1994,0 19 506639 1 Show More
by Joan Hedrick.
Oxford, 507 pp., £25, March 1994,
“... through a contemporary lens. Neither Child nor Stowe has lacked attention, but Joan Hedrick and Carolyn Karcher make more extensive use of their respective subjects’ correspondence than earlier authors and so offer a more detailed view of their everyday lives. Their focus on personal correspondence and literary productions, however, discourages ... ”
