Educators & Agitators
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Educators & Agitators
Selected Works of 19th Century Women Writers from a Small New Hampshire Town
Compiled and Edited by Larry Sullivan
Artwork by Mimi Wiggin
"Larry Sullivan's Educators and Agitators is a history-lover's dream. Sullivan gives us newly collected historical writings accentuated with author biographies and peppered with reliable source notes. That featured authors are 19th-century women from rural Warner, New Hampshire, makes it even better.
Educators and Agitators restores the lost and forgotten voices of fifteen published village women, showing us the sensibilities, styles, and concerns of the times. Although attached to a small New Hampshire town walled in by rounded hills, Warner's 29th century women engaged in the social, political, and literary movements of their day. They and their words traveled to and from the town with regional and national audiences in mind.
Diligent research lifts these selections out of a misty past. Enticing links with better know names - such as Susan B. Anthony, Sarah Josepha Hale, Childe Hassam, Josiah Bartlett, and many others - suggest how local writers fit into the larger themes of U.S. social , political, and literary history.
Visually, the book pleases. The reader will appreciate the carefully selected photographs of the featured writers and their houses. The delicate color illustrations by Mimi Wiggin perfectly embody the landscape and subject matter, presented as if gazing into the past through a softly-focused lens.
This is a treasury of the unexpected. Read with confidence and delight."
Judith Moyer. Ph.D., Faculty Emerita
Department of History, University of New Hampshire
Selected Works of 19th Century Women Writers from a Small New Hampshire Town
Compiled and Edited by Larry Sullivan
Artwork by Mimi Wiggin
"Larry Sullivan's Educators and Agitators is a history-lover's dream. Sullivan gives us newly collected historical writings accentuated with author biographies and peppered with reliable source notes. That featured authors are 19th-century women from rural Warner, New Hampshire, makes it even better.
Educators and Agitators restores the lost and forgotten voices of fifteen published village women, showing us the sensibilities, styles, and concerns of the times. Although attached to a small New Hampshire town walled in by rounded hills, Warner's 29th century women engaged in the social, political, and literary movements of their day. They and their words traveled to and from the town with regional and national audiences in mind.
Diligent research lifts these selections out of a misty past. Enticing links with better know names - such as Susan B. Anthony, Sarah Josepha Hale, Childe Hassam, Josiah Bartlett, and many others - suggest how local writers fit into the larger themes of U.S. social , political, and literary history.
Visually, the book pleases. The reader will appreciate the carefully selected photographs of the featured writers and their houses. The delicate color illustrations by Mimi Wiggin perfectly embody the landscape and subject matter, presented as if gazing into the past through a softly-focused lens.
This is a treasury of the unexpected. Read with confidence and delight."
Judith Moyer. Ph.D., Faculty Emerita
Department of History, University of New Hampshire