In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished Women born in America\'s Gilded Age who lost--and found--themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them.
Jewish immigrants Hilda Satt Polac.
Carey Thomas, and Jane Addams, grew up in households filled with books, while less privileged Women found alternative routes to expressive literacy.
Some women, like Edith and Alice Hamilton, M.
In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished Women born in America\'s Gilded Age who lost--and found--themselves in books, and worked out a new life purpose around them