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One of the most celebrated women of her time, a spellbinding speaker dubbed the Queen of the Lyceum and America's Joan of Arc, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson was a charismatic orator, writer, and actress, who rose to fame during the Civil War and remained in the public eye for the next three... read more
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- Anna Dickinson: Add a description of this character.
- Susan B. Anthony
- Susan Dickinson
- Ben Butler
- Whitelaw Reid
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Horace Greeley
- Fanny Davenport
- Lincoln
- Henry Ward Beecher
- Theodore Tilton
- Willie
- Edwin
- Lou Brackett
- Grant
- Sallie Ackley
- Frances Willard
- Mary Dickinson
- Stetson
- Francesca
- Clarkson
- Wendell Phillips
- Frederick Douglass
- John
- Samuel
- Kelley
- Redpath
- Kate Field
- Anne Boleyn
- Dr. Seward
- Bernard
- Garrison
- Benjamin Butler
- Logan
Setting & Locations edit
- New York City
- Philadelphia
- Chicago
- Boston
- Pennsylvania
- Goshen
- New England
- Hartford
- Washington
- Connecticut
- America
- Kansas
- Colorado
- California
- Massachusetts
- South Carolina
- New Jersey
- United States
- Northeast
- Ohio
- Richmond
- Midwest
- West Pittston
- Atlantic City
- Indiana
- Scranton
- Michigan
- Danville
- Virginia
- Rochester
- Cincinnati
- Sallie Austin
- Hanaford
- Georgia
- Brooklyn
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WHEN six men broke down her bedroom door on a blustery February day in 1891, they found Anna Elizabeth Dickinson sitting on the floor surrounded by leather-bound scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, and stacks of correspondence.
Authors & Contributors edit
- J. Matthew Gallman (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 920
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- Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States › History & Criticism › Literary Theory
- Books › History › Americas › United States › 19th Century
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Specific Groups › Women
- Books › History › World › Women in History
- Books › Biographies & Memoirs › Historical › United States
- Books › Nonfiction › Women's Studies
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