Hero Strong and Other Stories: Tales of Girlhood Ambition, Female Masculinity, and Women\'s Worldly Achievement in Antebellum America by Mary Gibson, Daniel A. Cohen

Hero Strong and Other Stories: Tales of Girlhood Ambition, Female Masculinity, and Women\'s Worldly Achievement in Antebellum America

Mary Gibson, Daniel A. Cohen

192 pages • first pub 2014 (view editions)

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A teenage orphan from Vermont, Mary Gibson burst onto the literary scene during the early 1850s as a star writer, under the pseudonym Winnie Woodfern, for more than half a dozen Boston “story papers,” mass-circulation weekly periodicals that speci...

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