Paper Heroines
The lyrical and political power of nineteenth-century women reformers'' life writing
Paper Heroines studies the ways women represented their own and one another''s lives in their personal diaries and their biographies of their contemporaries. Author Mollie Barnes urges us to read the life writing that emerged from among the relief-work networks of the South Carolina Lowcountry as deeply interconnec...
The lyrical and political power of nineteenth-century women reformers'' life writing
Paper Heroines studies the ways women represented their own and one another''s lives in their personal diaries and their biographies of their contemporaries. Author Mollie Barnes urges us to read the life writing that emerged from among the relief-work networks of the South Carolina Lowcountry as deeply interconnec...
