PERISH THE THOUGHT by Conrad, Susan Phinney - 1976: Intellectual Women in Romantic America 1830-1860

New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Rust cloth covered boards. Very good, in very good dust wrapper. 292 pages. Part biography, part history, part literary criticism, this lively and insightful book celebrates America's first generation of women intellectuals. The thirty years before the Civil War - when Romanticism crossed continents and worked its way into the pervasive American philosophy and folklore of Jacksonian democracy - brought to the fore the intellectual talents of many women of this generation. Women explored: Margaret Fuller, Lydia Maria Child, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Oakes Smith, and Elizabeth Ellet. Interior and boards, crisp and clean. Dust wrapper lightly rubbed at edges. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. Covered in protective mylar.