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... adulterated food, impure milk, smoke- laden air, ill- ventilated factories, dangerous occupations, juvenile crime, unwholesome crowding, prostitution, and drunkenness. . . . Perhaps we can forecast the career of woman, the citizen, ...
... adulterated food, impure milk, smoke- laden air, ill- ventilated factories, dangerous occupations, juvenile crime, unwholesome crowding, prostitution, and drunkenness. . . . Perhaps we can forecast the career of woman, the citizen, ...
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destructiveness that Alcott's potential for real artistic coherence at this point in her career lay. The public response to Moods was mixed. Al- cott had dared to publish it partly because of the adulation accorded the infinitely less ...
destructiveness that Alcott's potential for real artistic coherence at this point in her career lay. The public response to Moods was mixed. Al- cott had dared to publish it partly because of the adulation accorded the infinitely less ...
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Chopin's writing 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 ...
Chopin's writing 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 ...
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThis supplement, the latest addition to the well-known "American Writers'' series, includes 29 authors. All except Frederick Douglass, the 19th-century orator and writer, are 20th-century poets ... Read full review
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| Title | American writers: a collection of literary biographies. Jane Addams to Sidney Lanier |
| Editor | Leonard Unger |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's sons, 1979 |
| ISBN | 0684157977, 9780684157979 |
| Length | 373 pages |
| Subjects | › › Literary Criticism / American / General |
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