Growing Up in Boston's Gilded Age: The Journal of Alice Stone Blackwell, 1872-1874

by Marlene D. Merrill and Marlene Deahl Merrill

Book Overview

In 1872, when Alice Stone Blackwell was 14 years old, she began a diary. The only child of women's rights leaders Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell, Alice was a lively, wilful, intellectually precocious girl who tried to carve out her own identity while growing up in the midst of the strong personalities and commitments of her family and their Boston circle. Her two year journal, edited, annotated, and introduced by Marlene Deahl Merrill, is both an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300047770
• ISBN13: 9780300047776
• Release Date: November 1990
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.6"