Travels in America 1851-1855

by Rosalie Roos

"If I could accomplish something useful for my fellowcreatures, I could gladly go on liv­ing, but if I must remain so powerless, so dependent, so tied down--oh, then letme be allowed to die "

So strongly did Rosalie Roos ache for per­sonal independence that she set sail for the New World to escape the stifling caste of womanhood in the Sweden of the 1850s. As her diary and letters make clear, America im­pressed her...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080931018X
• ISBN13: 9780809310180
• Release Date: March 1982
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"