{"product_id":"daughter-of-boston-isbn-9780807050354","title":"Daughter of Boston","description":"In nineteenth-century Boston, amidst the popular lecturing of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the discussion groups led by Margaret Fuller, sat a remarkable young woman, Caroline Healey Dall (1822-1912): transcendentalist, early feminist, writer, reformer, and, perhaps most importantly, active diarist. During the seventy-five years that Dall kept a diary, she captured all the fascinating details of her sometimes agonizing personal life, and she also wrote about all the major figures who surrounded her. Her diary, filling forty-five volumes, is perhaps the longest running diary ever written by any American and the most complete account of a nineteenth-century woman's life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDaughter of Boston,\u003c\/i\u003e scholar Helen Deese has painstakingly combed through these diaries and created a single fascinating volume of Dall's observations, judgments, descriptions, and reactions.Deese's selections from the journals reveal Dall's brilliant mind, her ready wit, and her deep understanding of the currents of change that swept the country during its first century of nationhood.--Megan Marshall, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Peabody Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Caroline Healey Dall's writings will become a keystone to our understanding of nineteenth-century New England . . . a true historical find.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly,\u003c\/i\u003e starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDaughter of Boston\u003c\/i\u003e provides a fascinating glimpse into a woman's life in nineteenth-century New England.\"--Anne E. Stein, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDaughter of Boston\u003c\/i\u003e is a major act of recovery, an important and even a timely work, restoring to us the full and satisfying presence of an extraordinary, active, strong and controversial woman of letters.\"--Robert D. Richardson, author of \u003ci\u003eEmerson: The Mind on Fire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone who has contemplated the conundrum of the glass ceiling that challenges contemporary women would do well to read this excerpted diary of social reformer Caroline Healey Dall for its reflection upon the conflicts that women faced a century and a half ago . . . An illuminating record of the controversies that continue to rankle American society today.\"-Nancy Rubin Stuart, \u003ci\u003eForeWord Magazine\u003c\/i\u003eHelen R. Deese is the Caroline Healey Dall editor for the Massachusetts Historical Society. She lives in Flint and Ann Arbor, Michigan.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302751359205,"sku":"NP9780807050354","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807050354.jpg?v=1767724746","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/daughter-of-boston-isbn-9780807050354","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}