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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1997
ISBN 10: 1555533078ISBN 13: 9781555533076
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Louisa May Alcott championed women's causes in gothic tales of interracial romance and in newspaper articles published during the Civil War. Drawn from her service as a nurse in a Union hospital as well as from her radical abolitionist activities, these writings allow Alcott to comment boldly on unstable racial identities, interracial sex and marriage, armed slave rebellion, war, and the links between the bondage of slaves and the conditions of white womanhood. A comprehensive introduction situates Alcott and her family within the network of antebellum reformers and unmasks her personal and literary struggles with the boundaries of race, sex, and class.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1997
ISBN 10: 1555533035ISBN 13: 9781555533038
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Traces the life and career of the great jazz singer, including her imprisonment for heroin possession, her struggles against racial prejudice, and an analysis of her performances and recordings.
Published by Brand: Northeastern, 2003
ISBN 10: 1555535704ISBN 13: 9781555535704
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Edition Unstated. Young women today have benefited from the strides made by grassroots social activists in the 1960s and 1970s, yet they are hesitant to identify themselves as feminists and seem apathetic about carrying the torch of older generations to redress persistent sexism and gender-based barriers. Contesting the notion that we are in a post-feminist age, this provocative collection of original essays identifies a third wave of feminism. The contributors argue that the next generation needs to develop a politicized, collective feminism that both builds on the strategies of second wave feminists and is grounded in the material realities and culture of the twenty-first century.Organized in five sections that mirror the stages of consciousness-raising, this is an engaging, often edgy, look at a broad range of perspectives on the diversity, complexity, multiplicity, and playfulness of the third wave. It is also a call to action for new voices to redefine a feminism that is not only personally aware but also politically involved.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 2003
ISBN 10: 1555535720ISBN 13: 9781555535728
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. New Hampshire judge and probate attorney John Fairbanks, a court-appointed executor and trustee, stole thousands of dollars from the estates of his trusting elderly clients. Successful Virginia lawyer David Murray misappropriated nearly four million dollars from estates entrusted to him in one of the largest financial swindles by a lawyer in U.S. history. Enterprising attorney James Gundeson drafted wills and living trusts for many residents of Leisure World in Orange County, California, who named him the sole trustee and major beneficiary.These are just some of the cases examined by Paula A. Monopoli to illustrate the unsettling prevalence of fraud and abuse inherent in American probate law. Probate courts are intended to provide a vehicle for the orderly disposition of property after death, to balance the interests of creditors, the government, and heirs, and to protect the rights of the elderly and others with special needs. In this insightful work, Monopoli shows how an array of flaws in the system allows corrupt and unethical lawyers to take advantage of the nation's most vulnerable citizens. She delves into such subjects as the history and purpose of probate, procedural complexities, lack of regulatory oversight, inadequate judicial resources, and the growth of non-probate alternatives, concluding with a blueprint for reform that emphasizes deterrence, detection, and compensation for the victims.
Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1995
ISBN 10: 1555532292ISBN 13: 9781555532291
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Harry Ellis Dickson is one of Boston's most popular, beloved, and energetic musicians. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1908 to Russian immigrant parents, Dickson was a violinist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra for nearly fifty years and Assistant Conductor for Arthur Fiedler's Boston Pops. He continues to conduct more than fifty concerts each year in the United States and abroad.In this charming memoir, Dickson recollects his long and illustrious life and career. With humor and warmth, he shares reminiscences and anecdotes about his family and friends, colleagues, travels, and the Boston Symphony. An entertaining raconteur, Dickson relates his experiences, some amusing, some serious, in working with such renowned conductors and performers as Danny Kaye, Arthur Fiedler, Serge Koussevitzky, Seiji Ozawa, John Williams, and Igor Stravinsky. The memoir also includes Dickson's touching reflections on his wife, his daughters, and the failed presidential campaign of his son-in-law Michael Dukakis.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1999
ISBN 10: 1555534066ISBN 13: 9781555534066
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Eileen Farrell is blessed with two voices. A classically-trained dramatic soprano who also loves to belt pop songs and torch the blues, she successfully conquered the worlds of opera and popular music over the course of her whirlwind career. Now, Farrell shares reminiscences about her remarkable professional and personal life. With candor, humor, and affection, she recalls her New England childhood, her overnight success at age twenty as star of her own CBS radio show, her big break dubbing vocals for Eleanor Parker in the MGM movie Interrupted Melody, and her many guest appearances on television shows. Farrell discusses her rise to fame as an opera star, from her highly acclaimed performance in Medea in 1955, to her historic debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Alceste in 1960. She also fondly recollects her marriage of forty years to New York police officer Robert Reagan and her life outside the limelight, including her frustrating tenure as a faculty member at Indiana University. Farrell speaks frankly about her tumultuous years at the Met, where her head-to-head confrontations with Sir Rudolph Bing brought her promising operatic career to an abrupt close after five seasons. While she loved singing the music of Verdi, Mascagni, and Giordano, Farrell reveals that she never reconciled herself to the life of a diva, preferring the friendliness of show business to the aloofness of the opera world. Populated with such figures as Leonard Bernstein, Arturo Toscanini, Maria Callas, Ethel Merman, Mabel Mercer, and Carol Burnett, this engaging memoir takes the reader from backstage at the Met to behind-the-scenes of the Ed Sullivan Show, providing a fascinating view of opera and the entertainment industry. Eileen Farrell's legion of fans will delight in her inviting story of a career that was like no other singer's.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1991
ISBN 10: 1555530958ISBN 13: 9781555530952
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A portrait of the leader of one of the world's most populous nations.
Published by Brand: Northeastern, 2004
ISBN 10: 1555536204ISBN 13: 9781555536206
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Arranged chronologically and enhanced by numerous illustrations and an extensive bibliography, a colorful and diverse history of Boston provides a detailed timeline of key events, personalities, and locales, covering such topics as population, planning, politics, social change, education, the arts, sports, religion, and more. Simultaneous.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 2006
ISBN 10: 1555536638ISBN 13: 9781555536633
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. She is a victim of intimate partner violence, a woman who has been harmed. She is a criminal offender, a woman who has harmed others. Superficially, it seems she is two separate women. Victim and offender are binary categories used within law, social science, and public discourse to describe social experiences with a moral dimension. Such terms draw upon cultural narratives of good and bad people and have influenced scholarship, public policy, and activism. The duality of good and bad women, separated into mutually exclusive extremes of angels and demons, has helped segregate thinking about, and responses to, each group. In this groundbreaking study, Kathleen J. Ferraro exposes the limits of such thinking by exploring the link between victimization and offending from the perspective of the women charged with the crimes. Interviewing forty-five women charged with criminal offenses (more than half of whom killed their abusers; the others participated in a range of violent crimes related to domestic violence), Ferraro uses their stories to illuminate complex interactions with violent partners, their children, and the legal system. She shows that these women are neither stereotypical angels nor demons, but rather human beings whose complicated lives belie the abstract categorizations of researchers, legal advocates, and the criminal justice system. Ferraro begins with a general discussion of blurred boundaries and the complexity of experience, and moves from there to discuss womens interactions with the criminal processing system. In the course of her study, she reexamines, and finds wanting, many standard ways of evaluating womens violent behavior, including mutual combat, battered woman syndrome, and cycle of violence. She argues that a more complex, nuanced understanding of intimate partner violence and how it contributes to womens offending will contribute to public policy less focused on control and accountability of individuals than on developing social conditions that promote everyones safety and well-being and foster a sense of hope.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 2001
ISBN 10: 1555534961ISBN 13: 9781555534967
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Softcover. Condition: Good. While many applaud the apparent successes of community and saturation policing, Neil Websdale contends instead that such law enforcement initiatives oppress rather than protect the poor, particularly African Americans in large urban centers. Based on a groundbreaking ethnographic study of public housing projects in Nashville, Tennessee, he argues persuasively that community policing is a critical component of a criminal justice juggernaut designed to manage or regulate stigmatized populations, much like slave patrols served as agents for social control on Southern plantations.In a work that is sure to stir controversy and heated debate, Websdale draws on extensive field research, documentary sources, and interviews to illuminate how a criminal justice system deeply rooted in racism and slavery destroys the black family, creates a form of selective breeding, and undermines the civil rights gains of the 1960s. Unlike previous studies of community policing, which analyze programs through the lens of law enforcement, this book focuses on the history, experiences, and perspectives of the people whose lives are most affected by today's policing strategies.Skillfully blending the voices of project residents with a rich synthesis of historical, sociological, and criminological analysis, Websdale describes the situational, cultural, and economic circumstances of Nashville's poor; examines the policing of social upheaval by detailing events in the 1997 looting and burning of the Dollar General Store; considers African American kinship systems and the special circumstances of battered women; and discusses why the vice trades -- prostitution and selling drugs -- thrive in public housing projects.Policing the Poor is a much-needed balance to prevailing optimistic views on the effectiveness of this new method of law enforcement.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1998
ISBN 10: 1555533590ISBN 13: 9781555533595
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. In this engaging work, now available in paperback, Thomas H. O'Connor chronicles the activities, achievements, and failures of the Church's leaders and parishioners over the course of two centuries.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1993
ISBN 10: 1555531636ISBN 13: 9781555531638
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1st American Edition. Lavishly illustrated with rare photographs from the Stuart-Liff collection, this monumental two-volume work by the founder of the London Opera Society surveys the history of operatic singing and recordings up to 1925.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern University Press, 2023
ISBN 10: 155553449XISBN 13: 9781555534493
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Edition Stated. Phil Cresta was no run-of-the-mill thief. Mastermind of the legendary Brink's armored truck robbery and a string of countless other high-stakes heists, he stole more than ten million dollars in escapades that often were breathtakingly daring and at times marvelously inventive. The robberies baffled both police and fellow outlaws for decades, and most of the crimes remain unsolved today. Now the open case files of these memorable thefts can be closed as Cresta himself provides the true story on how they were planned and carried out.Born in Boston's North End in 1928, Cresta was raised in an abusive household. He was sent to Concord Reformatory as a teenager, where he learned the craft of picking locks, a skill later honed during stays at the Charlestown and Walpole prisons in Massachusetts. Following the Brinks robbery in 1968, he was put on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, but eluded the law for five years, living in Chicago under an assumed name. After serving time at Walpole for the Brinks job, Cresta died penniless in Chicago in 1995. Yet shortly before his death, he revealed the full extent of his astonishing capers to coauthor Bill Crowley, a retired Boston police detective.Drawing from their extensive conversations, this riveting page-turner chronicles how Cresta, along with partners "Angelo" and "Tony," pulled off robberies of jewelers, rare coin dealers, furriers, and armored trucks, detailing the meticulous planning that marked his criminal career. Cresta's final accounting is brimming with vivid tales of betrayal, murder, and intrigue as well as a colorful cast of characters, including mob bosses, wise guys, informants, paid "ears," corrupt judges, a Hollywood starlet, and even the Mayor of Chicago.Filled with drama, tension, and humor, this absorbing saga takes the reader inside the dangerous yet exhilarating world of a life dedicated to crime.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1995
ISBN 10: 1555532411ISBN 13: 9781555532413
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Although Dr. Sam Sheppard's conviction for the infamous and brutal 1954 murder of his wife Marilyn was overturned in the 1960s, the real killer has never been identified. In Mockery of Justice, his son Sam Reese Sheppard and attorney Cynthia L. Cooper reinvestigate the crime. Drawing on recently recovered documents, Sheppard family papers, and interviews with new witnesses and suspects, they offer convincing evidence pointing to the real murderer, evidence that has persuaded the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor to reopen the investigation into the case.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 2001
ISBN 10: 1555534740ISBN 13: 9781555534745
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. A noted historian and author of Boston Catholics retraces the events that have continually shaped Boston and its cultural heritage for almost four centuries, making it one of the most resilient and unique cities in America.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1996
ISBN 10: 1555532640ISBN 13: 9781555532642
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cabana, a former warden in Massachusetts, Florida, and Mississippi, gives a powerful narrative account of the realities of capital punishment from the beginning of his 25 year career in corrections and culminating with his involvement in the executions of Edward Earl Johnson and Connie Ray Evans. He describes in vivid detail the last two weeks of the latter's life, the secretive world of executions, and his own personal conversion to an anti-death penalty ethic. Cabana currently teaches criminal justice at the University of Southern Mississippi. No bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1996
ISBN 10: 1555532756ISBN 13: 9781555532758
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Annotated edition. This selection of the writings of the influential African American critic and poet Sterling A. Brown (1901-1989) demonstrates his critical acumen and commitment to inclusive politics. The book contains three groupings of essays, focusing in turn on African American political issues, literature, and music, and concludes with a selection of Brown's literature and film reviews. These writings consistently point out the biases against black Americans in white cultural expression and argue for a recognition of the cultural contributions of African Americans.
Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1996
ISBN 10: 1555532721ISBN 13: 9781555532727
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. n edition. Internationally renowned as the finest Mozart and Strauss soprano since World War II, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was a preeminent performer in both opera and Lieder for three decades. She is as popular today as when she gave her farewell recital in 1979; Schwarzkopf's master classes have been televised, and she remains one of EMI's best-selling recording artists.In this first full-length biography, Alan Jefferson illuminates Schwarzkopf's remarkable life and career, analyzing in fascinating detail her skillful and distinguished performances on the opera stage and in the recording studio. Jefferson examines her unique vocal and interpretative gifts, although acknowledging that charges of artifice and mannerism leveled at her by some critics are not without merit. He draws on extensive research and archival documentation, including the Nazi Party's two-thousand-page file on Schwarzkopf, to explore her tenure as a soloist at the Deutsches Opernhaus in Berlin during Hitler's regime as well as her active and willing involvement in the Nazi Party. Jefferson also provides a revealing discussion of Schwarzkopf's complex partnership with and marriage to the maverick impresario and record producer Walter Legge. He considers her working relationships with Europe's leading conductors, including Wilhelm Furtwangler, Victor de Sabata, Karl Bohm, and, in particular, Herbert von Karajan, whose influence on Schwarzkopf's operatic career was not always beneficial.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1994
ISBN 10: 1555532136ISBN 13: 9781555532130
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Barbara L. Marshall challenges feminist critiques of modernism, arguing that the Enlightenment tradition, flawed as it is, can be reshaped without severing all ties to its principles of emancipation. Feminist theory, Marshall argues, along with post-colonial and anti-racist discourse, has the potential to revitalize and enrich critical social theory of modernity.
Published by Brand: Northeastern University Press, 2002
ISBN 10: 1555535224ISBN 13: 9781555535223
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The letters of John and Abigail Adams are laid bare here, chronicling their long love affair, political opinions, and humor in 226 letters and diary entries and providing an intimate glimpse of early American history. Simultaneous.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1995
ISBN 10: 1555532071ISBN 13: 9781555532079
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Softcover. Condition: Good. This novel by the author of Plum Bun and There is Confusion focuses on the lives of the beautiful Laurentine Strange and her vivacious younger cousin, Melissa Paul, in the early part of this century. The volume also includes a selection of Jessie Redmon Fauset's nonfiction writings.
Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1994
ISBN 10: 1555531954ISBN 13: 9781555531959
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Over the decades, Daniel Aaron has made an extraordinary contribution to the study of American literature and culture. As social historian, critic, and literary journalist, Aaron has covered a diverse range of subjects in a flow of articles and review essays.This first collection of Aaron's influential writings focuses on American novels, poems, biographies, and auto biographies that are viewed largely as cultural artifacts. Many of the selections explore the relation of literature and history, a theme that runs through much of Aaron's work. An engaging introduction by Aaron as well as informative section headnotes offer personal reflections, explanations, asides, and reminiscences that enrich the readers understanding of the topics, the times, and the author.In Aaron's own words, the volume "traces the saltatory course of a career largely spent thinking and talking about American things."
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1996
ISBN 10: 1555532772ISBN 13: 9781555532772
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. I first saw the brave and beautiful photographs in this remarkable collection at my ranch near Dubois, Wyoming, one night when Lou Jones made a slide presentation to the young trail warriors at the Trial Lawyer's College. A silent pall fell over the small group. Few had ever looked in the face of a human being who was destined to be killed, purposely, with premeditation, on an hour and day certain. Now we looked at the faces, and what we saw from Jones's penetrating camera were not names or numbers, not writs of habeas corpus or titles on legal documents, but people: people who were resigned to their fate, or who felt sorrow and shame; who were confused and knew not what was happening to them, or who knew full well their fate and had long ago abandoned hope. We were shown people who had been touched by the camera, and who, in turn, touched us through the photographs. -From the foreword by Gerry Spence.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1999
ISBN 10: 1555533930ISBN 13: 9781555533939
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1. This groundbreaking examination of murder among intimate partners considers domestic homicides in all their guises - not just those occurring between sexual partners but the killing of children, parents, and siblings as well. Unlike previous studies of domestic killings, which focus on statistical findings, the work illuminates the complex factors that motivate intimate partner murders.Drawing on extensive documentary sources and field research, Neil Websdale unearths the case histories of some 300 homicides involving family members and frames them within their interpersonal, familial, situational, and cultural contexts. He explores the kinship systems of various cultural groups (African American, Latino, Caucasian, and Asian American), discusses types of social and gender oppression, and explores the nature of families that experience domestic homicide. He also examines how these murders are covered by the media and looks at social policy initiatives designed to reduce such incidents.By exploring the cultural patterns and the intricate workings of power struggles revealed by these cases, Understanding Domestic Homicide expands one's understanding of such disconcerting crimes.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 2000
ISBN 10: 1555534236ISBN 13: 9781555534233
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Softcover. Condition: Good. In a small town in Mississippi, a prosperous black mortician's business arrangements with police and politicians unravel as his son enters adulthood.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1998
ISBN 10: 1555533566ISBN 13: 9781555533564
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition Later Impression. While an increasingly outspoken American public is quick to endorse the death penalty, the voices of those who experience the chilling reality of executing another human being are seldom heard. Donald A. Cabana chronicles a personal journey through the nation's prison system that culminated in giving the order to execute two death row inmates. Cabana's compelling account brings the reader inside the "secretive, mysterious world of the execution chamber" to witness the process of an execution and to experience the emotions of the executioner and the man strapped in the chair known as "black death."
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1988
ISBN 10: 1555530206ISBN 13: 9781555530204
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 2nd Printing. Book by.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 2006
ISBN 10: 1555536603ISBN 13: 9781555536602
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Softcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. On a spring day in 1774, in western Massachusetts' Berkshire County, Pamela Dwight and Theodore Sedgwick were married. Theodore--destined to become one of the Federalist party's leaders in the U.S. Congress in the 1790s and later an influential judge on Massachusetts' highest court--was almost twenty-eight, and three years a widower. Pamela, not quite twenty-one, was marrying Theodore Sedgwick over the clearly stated objections of her widowed mother. In the course of her thirty-three-year marriage to Theodore, Pamela gave birth to ten children, seven of whom--four sons and three daughters--survived to adulthood. All but one of them would marry. The courtships, engagements, and marriages of the sons and daughters of Theodore and Pamela are the subject of this book.Kenslea's richly researched account of Sedgwicks in and out of love comprises three parts. In Part 1, he examines Theodore and Pamela's marriage, characterized by Theodore's long absences and Pamela's depression and mental illness. He also looks at the courtships and marriages of their three oldest children, Eliza, Frances, and Theodore. These complex sets of relationships illuminate, among other things, the changing perceptions of the parental role in matchmaking, the vulnerability of wives abused by husbands, and the tenuous financial situation of widows in the early republic.In Part 2, Kenslea turns to the Boston-based courtships of Harry and Robert Sedgwick, when the brothers courted "the friendlies," a group of young women who taught them some important lessons, including the difficulties of navigating the subtle rules of social etiquette among the Boston elite. Harry met his future wife Jane among the friendlies. At the end of 1816, the two began a seven-month engagement, during which they were separated but kept up a voluminous correspondence. Part 3 highlights this correspondence, which shows a young couple envisioning for themselves a relationship of equals, despite the legal and cultural impediments of the day.Kenslea's epilogue considers Catharine Maria Sedgwick, the youngest sister and the best-known member of this generation of Sedgwicks. Catharine's reflections on her single state, both published and private, enrich this history of the married Sedgwicks by offering an early nineteenth-century alternative to the marriage plot.
Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1992
ISBN 10: 1555531539ISBN 13: 9781555531539
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Softcover. Condition: Good. 1st U.S. Edition. Book by McNay, Lois.
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Published by Brand: Northeastern, 1994
ISBN 10: 1555531911ISBN 13: 9781555531911
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Abridged. The journal of Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1736-1807) is perhaps the single most significant personal record of eighteenth-century life in America from a woman's perspective. Drinker wrote in her diary nearly continuously between 1758 and 1807, from two years before her marriage to the night before her last illness. The extraordinary span and sustained quality of the journal make it a rewarding document for a multitude of historical purposes.Published in its entirety in 1991, the diary is now accessible to a wider audience in this abridged edition. Focusing on different stages of Drinker's personal development within the context of her family, this edition of the journal highlights four critical phases of her life cycle: youth and courtship, wife and mother, in years of crisis, and grandmother and Grand Mother. Although Drinker's education and affluence distinguished her from most women, the pattern of her life was typical of other women in eighteenth-century North America.Informative annotation accompanies the text, and a biographical directory helps the reader to identify the many people who entered the world of Elizabeth Drinker.