Claiming the pen : women and intellectual life in the early American South / Catherine Kerrison.
In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in white southern wome...
Saved in:
Online Access: | Electronic book from JSTOR |
---|---|
Main Author: | |
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: | Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, [2015] |
Subjects: |