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...