American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney LanierLeonard Unger |
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... career of woman, the citizen, if she is permitted to bear an elector's part in the coming period of humanitarianism in which government must concern itself with human welfare. The settlement movement itself — and for many, Hull-House ...
... career of woman, the citizen, if she is permitted to bear an elector's part in the coming period of humanitarianism in which government must concern itself with human welfare. The settlement movement itself — and for many, Hull-House ...
Page 41
... career and a short, happy marriage. In the tale, Alcott depicts two women, idealistically modeled on herself and May, who love each other deeply; both are artists, enormously gifted, and beautiful. They are types of the "coming woman ...
... career and a short, happy marriage. In the tale, Alcott depicts two women, idealistically modeled on herself and May, who love each other deeply; both are artists, enormously gifted, and beautiful. They are types of the "coming woman ...
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... career was relatively short, spanning only the years between 1889 and 1904, when she died of a stroke. She worked almost entirely in fiction, writing two novels, one at the very beginning of her career and one near its conclusion, and a ...
... career was relatively short, spanning only the years between 1889 and 1904, when she died of a stroke. She worked almost entirely in fiction, writing two novels, one at the very beginning of her career and one near its conclusion, and a ...
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