A Law Unto Herself
A scathing critique of the legal status of women and their property rights in nineteenth-century America, Rebecca Harding Davis's 1878 novel A Law Unto Herself chronicles the experiences of Jane Swendon, a seemingly naive and conventional nineteenth-century protagonist struggling to care for her elderly father with limited financial resources. In order to continue care, Jane seeks to secure her rightful inheritance despite the efforts of her cousin and later her husband, a greedy man who has tricked her father into securing her hand in marriage. Appealing to middle-class literary tastes of the age, A Law Unto Herself elucidated for a broad ge…
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Weitere Autoren: Renfroe, Alicia Mischa (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8032-3814-5
- EAN: 9780803238145
- Produktnummer: 16489206
- Verlag: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 234 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.3 cm 349 g
- Gewicht: 349
Über den Autor
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) built a career spanning nearly half a century from her apprenticeship newspaper work for the Wheeling (WV) Intelligencer in the 1850s to her last published short story at the time of her death. She is best known for the publication of her novella Life in the Iron-Mills (1861) in the Atlantic Monthly . Alicia Mischa Renfroe is an associate professor of English at Middle Tennessee State University, USA.
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