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Loosening Corsets: The Heroic Life of Georgia's Feisty Mrs. Felton, First Woman Senator of the United States [SIGNED]
by Staman, A. Louise
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/very good
- ISBN 10
- 0978726316
- ISBN 13
- 9780978726317
- Seller
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Carrollton, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Macon: Tiger Iron Press, 2006. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by author in ink at front free endpaper. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xi, 266pp. Mild rubbing and creasing to covers and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in blue cloth over boards with spine and front cover lettered in silver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Gold Medalist in the IPPY Book Awards, an Eric Hoffer WINNER, and NOMINATED for Georgia Book of the Year. "Born into the destruction of the plantation south, Rebecca Felton's life parallels the reformation of Georgia from the ashes. Staman is an engaging biographer and does well to show us the landscape as well as Felton's intriguing course of events." The life of Rebecca reads like a novel, revealing the forgotten story of one of the most remarkable women in history. A Georgian born in 1835, Felton became the first woman Senator of the United States in 1922, at age 87. A tireless crusader, her attempts at political and civil reform are set against the backdrop of a state in violent chaos. Sherman's fires, Reconstruction's graft, the KKK, lynchers, rabid evangelicals, chain-gang convicts, the sneering H.L. Mencken, "unsexed" suffragists, WCTU crusaders, and worst of all, a tiny insect called the boll weevil - all strut or crawl or sweep across the pages of this work.(Publisher).
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
Gold Medalist in the IPPY Book Awards, an Eric Hoffer WINNER, and NOMINATED for Georgia Book of the Year. "Born into the destruction of the plantation south, Rebecca Felton's life parallels the reformation of Georgia from the ashes. Staman is an engaging biographer and does well to show us the landscape as well as Felton's intriguing course of events." The life of Rebecca reads like a novel, revealing the forgotten story of one of the most remarkable women in history. A Georgian born in 1835, Felton became the first woman Senator of the United States in 1922, at age 87. A tireless crusader, her attempts at political and civil reform are set against the backdrop of a state in violent chaos. Sherman's fires, Reconstruction's graft, the KKK, lynchers, rabid evangelicals, chain-gang convicts, the sneering H.L. Mencken, "unsexed" suffragists, WCTU crusaders, and worst of all, a tiny insect called the boll weevil - all strut or crawl or sweep across the pages of this work.(Publisher).
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- Bookseller
- Underground Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9661
- Title
- Loosening Corsets: The Heroic Life of Georgia's Feisty Mrs. Felton, First Woman Senator of the United States [SIGNED]
- Author
- Staman, A. Louise
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0978726316
- ISBN 13
- 9780978726317
- Publisher
- Tiger Iron Press
- Place of Publication
- Macon
- Date Published
- 2006
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About the Seller
Underground Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Carrollton, Georgia
About Underground Books, ABAA
Underground Books is an online rare and antiquarian bookshop as well as a brick and mortar general bookstore of the same name in downtown Carrollton, Georgia. Sister store Hills & Hamlets Bookshop is located in the nearby planned eco-community of Serenbe.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
Co-owners Josh Niesse and Megan Bell met in 2011, just 10 days or so after Josh opened the doors of Underground Books, literally underground, several steps below street level in a 100-year-old basement in our historic downtown. Megan, an English student at the University of West Georgia, walked in, fell down the rabbit hole, and never left! Reader, we married in May of 2014, under the book arch that now resides at the bookshop. We are both proud alumni of the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar (CABS), and Megan additionally of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia and of the ABAA Women's Initiative Mentorship Program.
We have two open bookshops that carry new, used, bargain, rare, and antiquarian books, as well as our online office, impossible without our incredible team of booksellers, including two fellow CABS graduates, Miranda McMillan and Suzanne Carnes.
Like many booksellers with open brick-and-mortar stores, we are passionate generalists, but our specialties are in decorative publisher's cloth bindings; fairy tales, folklore, and mythology; popular science and natural history; the occult; and fine press books.
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