PERISH THE THOUGHT; Intellectual women in Romantic America 1830-1860
1976 · NY
by CONRAD, Susan Phinney
NY: Oxford, 1976. 8vo, pp. 292. Notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated with several portraits. Top edge spotted, o/w a nice copy in little scuffed dj. Conrad explores the historical and personal factors that lured such women as Margaret Fuller, Lydia Maria Child, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and Elizabeth Ellet away from home and hearth. (Inventory #: 41958)