Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, June 1st, 2005
Jane Grey Swisshelm: An Unconventional Life, 1815-1884. By Sylvia D. Hoffert. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. 272 pp. $39.95. Jane Addams: A Writer's Life. By Katherine Joslin. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. 328 pp. $35.00. Two new biographies of social revolutionaries--one written by an historian and one by a literary critic--continue the feminist project of interpreting and recontextualizing an expanded nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American canon. Although hitherto neglected by history, Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815-1884) followed a line of import...
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