A Tour of Reconstruction: Travel Letters of 1875

by Anna E. Dickinson and Anna Dickinson

Anna Dickinson's career as an orator began in her teenage years, when she gave her first impassioned speech on women's rights. By the age of twenty-one, she was spending at least six months per year on the road, delivering lectures on abolitionism, politics, and public affairs, and establishing herself as one of the nation's first celebrities. In March 1875, Dickinson departed from Washington, D.C., for an extended tour of the South, curious to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813134242
• ISBN13: 9780813134246
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"