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Title: The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner, Jane Tompkins ISBN: 0-935312-66-8 Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY Pub. Date: November, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful Book! Teaches Great Christian Values!
Comment: I am a 14-year old girl, and I have read this book twice! It is exceptional in that it teaches good Christian values that are much needed in our society today. If everybody learned to die to themselves and have the self-control that Ellen did in the book, this world would be a much happier place. I dislike the feminists' biased criticism of the book, but I am thankful that they had the book reprinted. However, I would love to have a copy without the feminist afterward.
Rating: 5
Summary: Jane Tompkins calls WWW the Ur text of the 19th century.
Comment: Susan Warner's _The Wide, Wide World_ was first published in 1852 and is often acclaimed as America's first bestseller.
Its heroine, Ellen Montgomery, is her mother's sole companion, confidante, and spiritual prodigy. Ellen's father wisks the mother away under the pretense of taking her to a climate more favorable to her health. Her mother's last words to Ellen are "We must endure, but we must not rebel." Ellen is sent to her father's sister's house in the country. Miss Fortune is a pragmatic independent manager of a small farm. She takes Ellen in though she was not told of Ellen's coming. Ellen's
sensibilities are crushed by Miss Fortune's lack of sympathy
for Ellen's tastes. Ellen will find friends in the more genteel and conventionally religious neighbors, Alice and John Humphreys, who agree that Ellen would make a good wife for John when she grows up. Ellen's foil is the "wild girl" Nancy Vawse who roams the countryside and turns up to torment Ellen with her rough ways. When Ellen reaches her teens, she learns some very surprising news which precipitates a trip to Scotland. The intensly emotional and high-strung Ellen who "conquers her will" represents everything contemporary psychology and feminism denounce. For a rich experience of sublimated religion and sexual titillation in a pre-Freudian and pre-Darwinian world, read Susan Warner's _The Wide, Wide World_.
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Title: The Hidden Hand, Or, Capitola the Madcap (The American Women Writers Series) by Joanne Dobson, Emma Dorothy Elizabe Southworth, Eden Southworth ISBN: 0813512964 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: June, 1988 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Lamplighter (American Women Writers) by Maria S. Cummins, Nina Baym ISBN: 0813513332 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: October, 1988 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: Charlotte Temple by Cathy N. Davidson, Susanna Hoswell Rowson, Susanna Haswell Rowson, Cathy N. Davedson ISBN: 0195042387 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 1987 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Hope Leslie, Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (Penguin Classics) by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Carolyn L. Karcher ISBN: 0140436766 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: November, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Lori Merish ISBN: 0822325160 Publisher: Duke Univ Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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