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Contains essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief. This book talks about: images of the sentimental seamstress figure in women's fiction; Rebecca Harding Davis's rewriting of the industrial novel; the philanthropic work and writings of Hull House founder, Jane Addams; and more.

Our Sisters Keepers Nineteenthcentury Benevolence Literature by American Women Studies in American Literary Realism and Naturalism

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      Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
      Publication Date: 8/31/2005 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780817351939, 978-0817351939
      ISBN10: 0817351930

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      Book Synopsis
      Contains essays on the roles played by women in forming American attitudes about benevolence and poverty relief. This book talks about: images of the sentimental seamstress figure in women's fiction; Rebecca Harding Davis's rewriting of the industrial novel; the philanthropic work and writings of Hull House founder, Jane Addams; and more.

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