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One of the most celebrated women of her time, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson was a charismatic orator, writer, and actress, who rose to fame during the Civil War. In "America's Joan of Arc," Gallman offers the first full-length biography of Dickinson to appear in over half a century.

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One of the most celebrated women of her time, a spellbinding speaker dubbed the Queen of the Lyceum and America's Joan of Arc, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson was a charismatic orator, writer, and actress, who rose to fame during the Civil War and remained in the public eye for the next three decades.
J. Matthew Gallman offers the first full-length biography of Dickinson to appear in over half a century. Gallman describes how Dickinson's passionate patriotism and fiery style, coupled with her unabashed abolitionism and biting critiques of antiwar Democrats--known as Copperheads--struck a nerve with her audiences. In barely two years, she rose from an unknown young Philadelphia radical, to a successful New England stump speaker, to a true national celebrity. At the height of her fame, Dickinson counted many of the nation's leading reformers, authors, politicians, and actors among her friends. Among the dozens of famous figures who populate the narrative are Susan B. Anthony, Whitelaw Reid, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Gallman shows how Dickinson's life illuminates the possibilities and barriers faced by nineteenth-century women, revealing how their behavior could at once be seen as worthy, highly valued, shocking, and deviant.

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WHEN six men broke down her bedroom door on a blustery February day in 1891, they found Anna Elizabeth Dickinson sitting on the floor surrounded by leather-bound scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and stacks of correspondence.

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  • Title America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
  • Author J. Matthew Gallman
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2006-04-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780195161458 / 0195161459
  • Weight 1.16 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.46 x 6.44 x 0.95 in (24.03 x 16.36 x 2.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Antislavery movements - United States -, Women's rights - United States - History -
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006000888
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Booklist, 04/15/2006, Page 23
  • Library Journal, 04/01/2006, Page 103
  • Publishers Weekly, 02/27/2006, Page 49

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J. Matthew Gallman is Professor of History at the University of Florida. An authority on the American Civil War, he is the author of Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855; The North Fights the Civil War: The Home Front; and Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War.
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