Revelations of Self: American Women in Autobiography - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791403734 ISBN 13: 9780791403730

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1990

Synopsis

These autobiographies illustrate the emergence of American women from their traditional position of dependence and legal and social inequality. Here are five women of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Anna Cora Mowatt, a well-known playwright and popular actress; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a prominent leader of the first women's rights movement; Harriet Jacobs, an escaped slave; Mary Antin, a Russian Jew who emigrated with her family to the United States in the late nineteenth century; and Margaret Sanger, founder of the birth control movement in the United States. An introduction and notes accompany each autobiography.

About this title

About the Author:

At Carnegie Mellon University, Lois J. Fowler is Professor of English and David H. Fowler is Professor of History.

At Carnegie Mellon University, Lois J. Fowler is Professor of English and David H. Fowler is Professor of History.

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0791403734
• ISBN 13: 9780791403730
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 277
• Editor: Fowler Lois J, Fowler David H