Title

Carry A. Nation : retelling the life

Description

Profiles the life of Carry Nation from her upbringing in Kentucky and devastating first marriage to her ascendancy as a full-time smasher, preacher, lecturer, off-Broadway performer, and, from time to time, jailbird.

Identifier

966595

253338468

Creator

Grace, Fran

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

2001

Program air date: October 14, 2001

Publisher

Indiana University Press

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Extensive notes on front and back endpapers, half-title and verso and title page concerning alcohol, raids, Nation being compared to John Brown, moral suasion, the author as a feminist historian, Nation's personal and family histories. Lamb asks how Nation relates to Frances Willard, Sojourner Truth, Mary Baker Eddy and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Notes/underlinings: Image as a crusader, religion, position/image as a woman, saloons, Women's Christian Temperance Movement, health, divorce.

Subject

"Nation, Carry Amelia, 1846-1911."

"Prohibitionists--United States--Biography."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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