The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess: Annie Adams Fields and Mary Gladstone Drew

by Susan K. Harris

Book Overview

The Cultural Work of the Late Nineteenth-Century Hostess explores the influence well-placed, energetic women had on literary and political culture in the U.S. and in England in the years 1870-1920. Fields, an American, was first married to James T. Fields, a prominent Boston publisher; after his death she became companion to Sarah Orne Jewett, one of the foremost New England writers. Gladstone was a daughter of William Gladstone, one of Great Britain's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312295294
• ISBN13: 9780312295295
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 5.8"