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Ladies Night at the Dreamland (Paperback)
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Ladies Night at the Dreamland (Paperback)
Series: Crux: The Georgia Series in Literary Nonfiction Series
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At the Dreamland, women and girls flicker from the shadows to take
their proper place in the spotlight. In this lyrical collection,
Sonja Livingston weaves together strands of research and
imagination to conjure figures from history, literature, legend,
and personal memory. The result is a series of essays that
highlight lives as varied, troubled, and spirited as America
itself. Harnessing the power of language, Livingston breathes life
into subjects who led extraordinary lives-as rule-breakers,
victims, or those whose differences made them cultural
curiosities-bringing together those who slipped through the world
largely unseen with those whose images were fleeting or faulty so
that they, too, remained relatively obscure. Included are Alice
Mitchell, a Memphis society girl who murdered her female lover in
1892; Maria Spelterini, who crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope in
1876; May Fielding, a "white slave girl" buried in a Victorian
cemetery; Valaida Snow, a Harlem Renaissance trumpeter; a child
exhibited as Darwin's Missing Link; the sculptors' model Audrey
Munson; a Crowwarrior; victims of a 1970s serial killer; the Fox
Sisters; and many more.
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