Going to Boston: Harriet Robinson's Journey to New Womanhood
- Editor
- Harriet Robinson
- Editor
- Claudia L. Bushman
- Content
- xvi + 259 pp., ill., bibl., index
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England
- Description
- Focuses on writer Harriet Robinson's diary for 1870, when she temporarily leaves her middle-class life and husband in Lowell, Massachusetts, to seek a more public life in Boston, meets Ralph Waldo Emerson, and organizes the New England Women's Club with Julia Ward Howe. Includes biographical material, contemporaneous writing, historical background, and interspersed editorial commentary.
- Main subject
- Autobiography and Biography
Feminism and Women's Rights
History - ISBN
- 9781512600896 (cloth); 9781512600902 (pap.); 9781512600919 (ebook)
- Citation
- Robinson, Harriet, ed. Going to Boston: Harriet Robinson's Journey to New Womanhood. Edited by Claudia L. Bushman. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2017. Sylvia. Accessed March 19, 2024. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL1184.
- Updated
- 07-06-2021