Albion Fellows BaconIndiana's Municipal HousekeeperRobert G. BarrowsExamines the career of a leading Progressive Era reformer.Born in Evansville, Indiana, in 1865, Albion Fellows was reared in the nearby hamlet of McCutchanville and graduated from Evansville High School. She worked for several years as a secretary and court reporter, toured Europe with her sister, married local merchant Hilary Bacon in 1888, and settled into a seemingly comfortable routine of ...

The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society.Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to ...

Le Cercle littéraire des amateurs d'épluchures de patates, roman au succès planétaire et déjà vendu à 1 million d'exemplaires en France, revient au cinéma !Janvier 1946. Tandis que Londres se relève douloureusement de la guerre, Juliet, jeune écrivain, cherche un sujet pour son prochain roman. Comment pourrait-elle imaginer que la lettre d'un inconnu, natif de l'île de Guernesey, va le lui fournir ? Au fi l de ses échanges avec son nouveau correspondant, Ju...

Ce n'était pas le projet estival dont Layla avait rêvé.Rédiger l'histoire d'une petite ville de Virginie-Occidentale et de sa manufacture de chaussettes, Les Inusables Américaines.Et pourtant...Eté 1938. Layla Beck, jeune citadine fortunée, refuse le riche parti que son père lui a choisi et se voit contrainte, pour la première fois de sa vie, de travailler. Recrutée au sein d'une agence gouvernementale, elle se rend à Macedonia pour y écrire un livre ...

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