A Bluestocking in Charleston: The Life and Career of Laura Bragg

by Louise Anderson Allen

Elucidates the life and achievements of a nineteenth-century innovator

In early twentieth-century Charleston, Laura Bragg was called a woman ahead of her time, a fresh drink of water in a cultural desert--but never a proper Southern lady. Bragg was a Massachusetts-born bluestocking, a New Woman of the Progressive Era who changed not only the cultural face of Charleston but also the nation's approach to museum education. In this biography...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570033706
• ISBN13: 9781570033704
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"