One of the most celebrated women of her time, a spellbinding
speaker dubbed the Queen of the Lyceum and America's Joan of Arc,
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson was a charismatic orator, writer, and
actress, who rose to fame during the Civil War and remained in the
public eye for the next three decades. In America's Joan of Arc, J.
Matthew Gallman offers the first full-length biography of Dickinson
to appear in over half a century. Gallman describes how Dickinson's
passionate patriotism and fiery style, coupled with her unabashed
abolitionism and biting critiques of antiwar Democrats-known as
Copperheads-struck a nerve with her audiences. In barely two years,
she rose from an unknown young Philadelphia radical, to a
successful New England stump speaker, to a true national celebrity.
At the height of her fame, Dickinson counted many of the nation's
leading reformers, authors, politicians, and actors among her
friends. Among the dozens of famous figures who populate the
narrative are Susan B. Anthony, Whitelaw Reid, William Lloyd
Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriet
Beecher Stowe. Gallman explores her many public triumphs, but also
discloses how, as her public career waned, she battled with her
managers, her critics, her audiences, and her family (in 1891, her
sister had her committed briefly to an insane asylum). Equally
important, the author highlights how Dickinson's life illuminates
the possibilities and barriers faced by nineteenth-century women,
revealing how their behavior could at once be seen as worthy,
highly valued, shocking, and deviant. A vivid portrait of a
remarkable nineteenth-century woman, this book captures Dickinson's
amazing public career and the untold stories that shaped her stormy
private life.
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