Raising More Hell and Fewer Dahlias: The Public Life of Charlotte Smith, 1840-1917

by Autumn Stanley

This book is the first biography of nineteenth-century magazine editor and reformer Charlotte Smith. Based on years of research, and previously untapped sources, it shows both why she should be remembered and why she was forgotten.

Her story is quintessentially American: this daughter of Irish immigrants, despite having only a grade-school education and supporting two children alone, became a force to be reckoned with, first in journalism and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611460522
• ISBN13: 9781611460520
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Lehigh University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"