Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the

Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present

Historical events of the last three centuries come alive through these womenâ€™s singular correspondencesâ€”often their only form of public expression. In 1775, Rachel Revere tries to send financial aid to her husband, Paul, in a note that is confiscated by the British; First Lady Dolley Madison tells her sister about rescuing George Washingtonâ€™s portrait during the War of 1812; one week after JFKâ€™s assassination, Jacqueline Kennedy pens a heartfelt letter to Nikita Khrushchev; and on September 12, 2001, a schoolgirl writes a note of thanks to a
New York City firefighter, asking him, â€œWere you afraid?â€

The letters gathered here also offer fresh insight into the personal milestones in womenâ€™s lives. Here is a mid-nineteenth-century missionary describing a mastectomy performed without anesthesia; Marilyn Monroe asking her doctor to spare her ovaries in a handwritten note she taped to her stomach before appendix surgery; an eighteen-year-old telling her mother about her decision to have an abortion the year after Roe v. Wade; and a woman writing to her parents and in-laws about adopting a Chinese baby.

With more than 400 letters and over 100 stunning photographs, Womenâ€™s Letters is a work of astonishing breadth and scope, and a remarkable testament to the women who livedâ€“and madeâ€“history.
Country USA
Manufacturer The Dial Press
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2005-09-27
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780385335539

Country	USA
Manufacturer	The Dial Press
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2005-09-27
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780385335539

Women's Letters: America from the Revolutionary War to the Present