Emma Spaulding Bryant: Civil War Bride, Carpetbagger's Wife, Ardent Feminist: Letters 1860-1900

by Emma Frances Spauldi Bryant and Ruth Douglas Currie

Book Overview

Emma Spaulding's life might have been the simple story of a nineteenth-century woman in rural Maine. Instead, wooed by the ambitious John Emory Bryant, the Yankee Reconstruction activist and Georgia politician, she became the Civil War bride of a Republican carpetbagger intent on reforming the South. The grueling years in the shadow of her husband's controversial political career gave her a backbone of steel and the convictions of an early feminist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823222748
• ISBN13: 9780823222742
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 518 Pages
• Weight: 1.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"