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Article: America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- May 1, 2009
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America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson. By J. Matthew Gallman. (New York and other cities: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. [x], 262. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-19-516145-8.)
America's Joan of Arc: The Life of Anna Elizabeth Dickinson does full justice to one of the most remarkable figures in American history, Anna Dickinson, an orator who, as a very young woman, spoke in behalf of the Republican Party during the Civil War and dazzled her contemporaries. Even though she was a national celebrity by age twenty-one, she fell into poverty and insanity by middle age. Author J. Matthew Gallman offers a sympathetic but hardheaded depiction of this ...
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