WELL-READ LIVES: HOW BOOKS INSPIRED A GENERATION OF AMERICAN WOMEN

Book ID/图书代码： 13014009B33287

English Summary/英文概要： In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in America’s Gilded Age who lost--and found--themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them.
Some women, like Edith and Alice Hamilton, M. Carey Thomas, and Jane Addams, grew up in households filled with books, while less privileged women found alternative routes to expressive literacy. Jewish immigrants Hilda Satt Polacheck, Rose Cohen, and Mary Antin acquired new identities in the English-language books they found in settlement houses and libraries, while African Americans like Ida B. Wells relied mainly on institutions of their own creation, even as they sought to develop a literature of their own.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如变奏曲般引人入胜，作者芭芭拉于书中为读者深入介绍了数位美国的成功女性，她们皆生于镀金年代，也都曾一度迷失自我，但最终却又无一不在书本的海洋当中重拾了自心以及各自对于生活的崭新目标和动力。
读者将会看到其中的一些人，诸如伊迪丝、艾莉丝.汉密尔顿、M.凯里.托马斯、简.亚当斯都出生于书香门第，家庭背景为她们创造了得天独厚的条件；而另一些人则是另辟蹊径，借助其他方法才最终得以拥有饱读群书的机会。诸如犹太移民希尔达.萨特.波拉切克、罗斯.科恩、玛丽.安婷便是选择在图书馆或社区教育中心等地去翻阅书籍，并从中找寻到了全新的自己；而类似艾达.B.威尔斯等非洲裔美国公民，虽曾努力尝试对自身的文学进行发展与开拓，但却始终无法摆脱对于自身群体的依赖和局限。
本书作者芭芭拉的作品还包括了「艾莉丝.汉密尔顿传记1880-1917」，同时她还曾参与编写了「美国名媛列传：当代篇」。(ANDY)

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About the Author/作者介绍： Barbara Sicherman is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American Institutions and Values, Emerita, at Trinity College. She is author of Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters and The Quest for Mental Health in America, 1880-1917and coeditor of Notable American Women: The Modern Period.

Format:电子手稿

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