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Item Details
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LETTERS FROM NEW YORK
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| By: |
L. Maria Child, Bruce Mills (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£42.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0820320382 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780820320380 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1999 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Description: |
A portrait from Lydia Maria Child of the cultural realities of New York as an emerging urban centre with essays on the Amistad captives and women's suffrage. In this introduction and annotation of the text, Mills reconstructs the biographical and cultural context surrounding the book's publication. |
| Synopsis: |
Prominent author and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child began writing her "letters" from New York in August 1841 as a response to the troubling realities marking her private and public life. In particular, she was preoccupied by her editorial duties at the National Anti-Slavery Standard and dismayed by the growing sectarian spirit of anti-slavery reform. Collected primarily from the pages of the Standard, her literary essays on women's rights, the preaching of African American minister Julia Pell, the Crosby Street Synagogue, animal magnetism, the engineering miracle of Croton Aqueduct, and countless other people, topics, and events capture the breathless and sometimes unsettling transformation of one representative hub of national life. In his general introduction and annotation of the text, Bruce Mills reconstructs the biographical and cultural context surrounding the book's publication and documents substantive changes to the Standard's version of the letters and the book form.This edition also includes ten letters that Child chose to omit from earlier editions, including essays on the farewell gathering for the Amistad captives at the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and the near lynching of British abolitionist George Thompson. Long considered among Child's best writing, Letters from New-York still captivates readers with its moving descriptions of enduring cultural realities. It offers us a telling glimpse of New York as an emerging urban center and is an invaluable addition to the library of American literature. |
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US |
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University of Georgia Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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