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Dorothea Dix was the most politically engaged woman of her generation which was itself a remarkable tapestry of activists An influential lobbyist as well as a paragon of the doctrine of female benevolence she vividly illustrated the complexities of the separate spheres of politics and femininity Her greatest legislative initiative a campaign for federal land grants to endow state mental hospitals assumed a central role in the public land controversies that intertwined with the slavery issues in Congress following the Mexican War The passage of this legislation in 1854 and its subsequent veto by President Pierce touched off the most protracted effort to override a veto that had yet taken placeAn activist who disdained the womens rights and antislavery movements Dix an oldline Whig sought to promote national harmony and became the only New England social reformer to work successfully in the lower South right up to the eve of secession When war broke out she sought to achieve as Superintendent of Women Nurses the sort of cultural authority she had seen Florence Nightingale win in the same role during the Crimean War The disastrous failure of one of the most widely admired heroines in the nation provides a dramatic measure of the transformations of northern values during the war
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Born to an unavailable mother and an abusive father Dorothea Dix longs simply to protect and care for her younger brothers Charles and Joseph But at just fourteen she is separated from them and sent to live with relatives to be raised properly Lonely and uncertain Dorothea finds that she cant accept the social expectations imposed on her gender She wants to accomplish something more than finding a suitable mate
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This is primarily the story of the longtime friendship between Dorothea Dix and Dr Stribling as told by them in their unedited letters The letters are preceded by summaries of their life experiences at the time their friendship began Dix was the most politically active and welltraveled woman her time She enlarged or founded thirtytwo mental hospitals in fifteen states and other countries fifteen schools for the feebleminded a school for the blind and several training schools for nurses Dix successfully petitioned Congress to create the Government Hospital for the Insane in Washington D C Dix petitioned Congress in 1854 to sell twelve million acres of public land whose proceeds would befit the insane blind and paupers throughout the nation After it was passed by Congress but then vetoed by Congress a devastated Dix too ill to work traveled to England to recuperate By the late 60s Western State and similar institutions were filled with incurable patients leaving little room for those who could be cured By 1871 only eight of Striblings patients were expected to be cured twentysix others were doubtful and the remaining three hundred and six patients were decidedly unfavorable The situation was depressing for Stribling his staff and the caretakers who constantly drew on their skills energies and goodness of heart to soothe patients depressed spirits and replace their delusions with pleasant thoughts It would have been far easier to restore curable patients who would be in the hospital only for the brief duration of their illness Stribling died in 1974 Because of his crusade to cure the insane in the South he had been one of the most influential Virginians of his time Dix continued her crusade until the Civil war when she became head of the Union nurses Afterwards she resumed her efforts to help those who could not help themselves Dix died on July 17 1887 at the New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton
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During the early 1890s a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence This interest created an opportunity for Ida B Wells an African American journalist and civil rights activist from Memphis to travel to England to cultivate British moral indignation against American lynching Wells adapted race and gender roles established by African American abolitionists in Britain to legitimate her activism as a black lady reformera role American society denied herand assert her right to defend her race from abroad Based on extensive archival research conducted in the United States and Britain Black Woman Reformer by Sarah Silkey explores Wellss 189394 antilynching campaigns within the broader contexts of nineteenthcentury transatlantic reform networks and debates about the role of extralegal violence in American societyThrough her speaking engagements newspaper interviews and the efforts of her British allies Wells altered the framework of public debates on lynching in both Britain and the United States No longer content to view lynching as a benign form of frontier justice Britons accepted Wellss assertion that lynching was a racially motivated act of brutality designed to enforce white supremacy As British criticism of lynching mounted southern political leaders desperate to maintain positive relations with potential foreign investors were forced to choose whether to publicly defend or decry lynching Although British moral pressure and media attention did not end lynching the international scrutiny generated by Wellss campaigns transformed our understanding of racial violence and made American communities increasingly reluctant to embrace lynching
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Radical Reformers and Respectable Rebels sold for 31.64 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
In 1907 Grace Oakeshott faked her own death by drowning Aged 35 she left a marriage and a successful professional life in England and fled with her lover Walter Reeve to New Zealand What prompted her to do so Jocelyn Robson traces her life story through social political and religious reform movements of the fin de siècle period
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In 1907 Grace Oakeshott faked her own death by drowning Aged 35 she left a marriage and a successful professional life in England and fled with her lover Walter Reeve to New Zealand What prompted her to do so Jocelyn Robson traces her life story through social political and religious reform movements of the fin de siècle period
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During the early 1890s a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence This interest created an opportunity for Ida B Wells an African American journalist and civil rights activist from Memphis to travel to England to cultivate British moral indignation against American lynching Wells adapted race and gender roles established by African American abolitionists in Britain to legitimate her activism as a black lady reformera role American society denied herand assert her right to defend her race from abroad Based on extensive archival research conducted in the United States and Britain Black Woman Reformer by Sarah Silkey explores Wellss 189394 antilynching campaigns within the broader contexts of nineteenthcentury transatlantic reform networks and debates about the role of extralegal violence in American societyThrough her speaking engagements newspaper interviews and the efforts of her British allies Wells altered the framework of public debates on lynching in both Britain and the United States No longer content to view lynching as a benign form of frontier justice Britons accepted Wellss assertion that lynching was a racially motivated act of brutality designed to enforce white supremacy As British criticism of lynching mounted southern political leaders desperate to maintain positive relations with potential foreign investors were forced to choose whether to publicly defend or decry lynching Although British moral pressure and media attention did not end lynching the international scrutiny generated by Wellss campaigns transformed our understanding of racial violence and made American communities increasingly reluctant to embrace lynching
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This is the first comprehensive study of one of the most important aspects of the Reformation in England its impact on the status of the dead Protestant reformers insisted vehemently that between heaven and hell there was no middle place of purgatory where the souls of the departed could be assisted by the prayers of those still living on earth This was no remote theological proposition but a revolutionary doctrine affecting the lives of all sixteenthcentury English people and the ways in which their Church and society were organized This book illuminates the sometimes ambivalent attitudes towards the dead to be discerned in preReformation religious culture and traces up to about 1630 the uncertain progress of the reformation of the dead attempted by Protestant authorities as they sought both to stamp out traditional rituals and to provide the replacements acceptable in an increasingly fragmented religious world It also provides detailed surveys of Protestant perceptions of the afterlife of the cultural meanings of the appearance of ghosts and of the patterns of commemoration and memory which became characteristic of postReformation England Together these topics constitute an important casestudy in the nature and tempo of the English Reformation as an agent of social and cultural transformation The book speaks directly to the central concerns of current Reformation scholarship addressing questions posed by revisionist historians about the vibrancy and resilience of traditional religious culture and by postrevisionists about the penetration of reformed ideas Dr Marshall demonstrates not only that the dead can be regarded as a significant marker of religious and cultural change but that a persistent concern with their status did a great deal to fashion the distinctive appearance of the English Reformation as a whole and to create its peculiarities and contradictory impulses
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This is the first comprehensive study of one of the most important aspects of the Reformation in England its impact on the status of the dead Protestant reformers insisted vehemently that between heaven and hell there was no middle place of purgatory where the souls of the departed could be assisted by the prayers of those still living on earth This was no remote theological proposition but a revolutionary doctrine affecting the lives of all sixteenthcentury English people and the ways in which their Church and society were organized This book illuminates the sometimes ambivalent attitudes towards the dead to be discerned in preReformation religious culture and traces up to about 1630 the uncertain progress of the reformation of the dead attempted by Protestant authorities as they sought both to stamp out traditional rituals and to provide the replacements acceptable in an increasingly fragmented religious world It also provides detailed surveys of Protestant perceptions of the afterlife of the cultural meanings of the appearance of ghosts and of the patterns of commemoration and memory which became characteristic of postReformation England Together these topics constitute an important casestudy in the nature and tempo of the English Reformation as an agent of social and cultural transformation The book speaks directly to the central concerns of current Reformation scholarship addressing questions posed by revisionist historians about the vibrancy and resilience of traditional religious culture and by postrevisionists about the penetration of reformed ideas Dr Marshall demonstrates not only that the dead can be regarded as a significant marker of religious and cultural change but that a persistent concern with their status did a great deal to fashion the distinctive appearance of the English Reformation as a whole and to create its peculiarities and contradictory impulses
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Regarded by contemporaries as the chief dispute of our times tithes were the subject of intense controversy in the 1650s Ministers reformers radicals and sectarians all went into print to defend or destroy the clergys right to a tenth of the produce of the land Tithes pushed at the limits of private property and both their opponents and their defenders recognised their significance for ownership the law liberty and individuality This innovative and genuinely interdisciplinary study of the tithe disputes of the 1650s draws out their importance for understanding how people envisaged ownershipof the land of labour and of themselvesin seventeenthcentury England Through a range of pamphlets and tracts the book explores the notions of the increase husbandry the construction of the commonwealth and of individual conscience and their central significance for the idea of property
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Stephen Lushingtons long career as judge Privy Councillor political reformer and antislavery campaigner involved him in many of the great political and legal controversies of the nineteenth century He was adviser to Lady Byron during her separation from Lord Byron and defended Queen Caroline during her trial for adultery In Law Politics and the Church of England Stephen Waddams considers both cases afresh as well as examining the records of the Consistory Court of the Diocese of London to shed important new light on matrimonial and family law during the era immediately preceding the modern era of divorce courts As Admiralty Judge Lushington dealt with such central political issues as the control of neutral shipping by the British navy during the Crimean War He also played a crucial part in the ecclesiastical controversies that agitated the Church of England in the midninteenth century He was required to make decisions on the most controversial political and theological questions of his time in an era of radical change Law Politics and the Church of England considers afresh the relations between these three fundamental aspects of nineteenthcentury life and makes a major contribution not only to the legal history of the period but to the study of Regency and Victorian England in general
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The image of the puritan as a dour and repressive character has been central to ways of reading sixteenth and seventeenthcentury history and literature Kristen Pooles original study challenges this perception arguing that radical reformers were most often portrayed in literature of the period as deviant licentious and transgressive Through extensive analysis of early modern pamphlets sermons poetry and plays the fictional puritan emerges as a grotesque and carnivalesque figure By recovering this lost satirical image Poole sheds new light on the social role played by antipuritan rhetoric
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The six wives of Henry VIII brought queenship into the early modern era and his daughters Mary I and Elizabeth I found themselves in an almost unprecedented position as reigning queens From these Tudor women to the present each queen has a unique story to tell The unhappy Sophia Dorothea of Celle was imprisoned for over thirty years by her husband George I when her affair was discovered and her lover was murdered Queen Victoria spent her childhood secluded with her overprotective mother even sharing the same bedroom until the day when she was proclaimed queen and finally freed herself from her mothers controlNearly eighty women have sat on the throne of England either as queen regnant or queen consort and the voices of all of them survive through their writings and those of their contemporaries For the first time the voices of each individual queen can be heard This volume charts the course of English queenship from Henrys wives through the Tudors Stuarts Hanoverians right up to the House of Windsor and our current queen Elizabeth II
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The Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital was more than a building it embodied an entire era of uniquely American history from the unparalleled humanitarian efforts of Dorothea Dix to the revolutionary architectural concepts of Thomas Story Kirkbride After well over a century of service Greystone was left abandoned in 2008 From the time it closed until its demolition in 2015 Greystone became the focal point of a passionate preservation effort that drew national attention and served to spark the public s interest in historical asylum preservation Many of the images contained in this book were rescued from the basement of Greystone in 2002 and have never been seen by the public They appear courtesy of the Morris Plains Museum and its staff who spent many hours digitally archiving the photographs so that future generations may better know Greystone s history
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The Civil War wrought cataclysmic changes in the lives of American Women on both sides of the conflict Women in the Civil War demonstrates their enterprise fortitude and fierceness In this revealing social history Massey focuses on many famous women including nurses Dorothea Dix Clara Barton and Mother Bickerdyke spies Pauline Cushman and Belle Boyd writers Louisa May Alcott Julia Ward Howe and Mary Chestnut pamphleteer and military strategist Anna Ella Carroll black abolitionists Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth feminists Susan B Anthony and Jane Grey Swisshelm and political wives Varina Davis and Mary Todd Lincoln The anonymous women who maintained farms and plantations are described as are camp followers businesswomen entertainers activists and socialites in Charleston and Washington
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The Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital was more than a building it embodied an entire era of uniquely American history from the unparalleled humanitarian efforts of Dorothea Dix to the revolutionary architectural concepts of Thomas Story Kirkbride After well over a century of service Greystone was left abandoned in 2008 From the time it closed until its demolition in 2015 Greystone became the focal point of a passionate preservation effort that drew national attention and served to spark the public s interest in historical asylum preservation Many of the images contained in this book were rescued from the basement of Greystone in 2002 and have never been seen by the public They appear courtesy of the Morris Plains Museum and its staff who spent many hours digitally archiving the photographs so that future generations may better know Greystone s history
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