Author

Publication

2008 - University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

45,500 words, Guess

Page Count

182 pages

Identifiers

and 5 more

Classifications

  • DDC305.48/9623092274811
  • DDCB
  • LCCHQ1439.P5 B73 2008
and 2 more
  • LCCHQ1439.P5 B73 2008eb
  • LCCHQ1439.P5B73 2008

Description

"In Dangerous to Know, Susan Branson follows the fascinating lives of Ann Carson and Mary Clarke, offering an engaging study of gender and class in the early nineteenth century. According to Branson, episodes in both women's lives illustrate their struggles within a society that constrained women's activities and ambitions. She argues that both women simultaneously tried to conform to and manipulate the dominant sexual, economic, and social ideologies of the time. In their own lives and through their writing, the pair challenged conventions prescribed by these ideologies to further their own ends and redefine what was possible for women in early American public life."--Jacket.

Subjects

Topics

FameWomenCrimeHistorySex roleBiographyWomen authors

People

Ann Baker CarsonMary Clarke (fl. 1815-1838)

Times

Genres

  • Biography

Other Editions

  • Dangerous to know: women, crime, and notoriety in the early republicUniversity of Pennsylvania Press2008-01-01

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