America's Joan of Arc

One of the most celebrated women of her time, a spellbinding speaker dubbed the Queen of the Lyceum and America''s Joan of Arc, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson was a charismatic orator, writer, and actress, who rose to fame during the Civil War and remained in the public eye for the next three decades.J. Matthew Gallman offers the first full-length biography of Dickinson to appear in over half a century....