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An American Diary 1857-8 - Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (Paperback)
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An American Diary 1857-8 - Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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'I am one of the cracked people of the world,' Barbara Leigh Smith
Bodichon wrote of herself, 'and I like to herd with the cracked ...
queer Americans, democrats, socialists, artists, poor devils or
angels; and am never happy in an English genteel family life. I try
to do it like other people, but I long always to be off on some
wild adventure.' Reformer, feminist, free-thinker, later to endow
the founding of Girton College, Barbara Bodichon went to the United
States on a marriage journey. First published in 1972, her journal
of that trip, published in its original form for the first time,
contains timely observation and incisive criticism of the American
South before the Civil War, and gives a vivid portrait of a lively
woman of her times, the friend of George Eliot and other leading
figures of her age. This edition includes a fascinating
introduction about the English visitor in the United States, from
Dickens to Trollope. There is also a biographical study of Barbara
Bodichon herself, giving an account of her life and of the causes,
notably Women's Rights, to which she devoted her time and energy.
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