{"product_id":"emma-spaulding-bryant","title":"Emma Spaulding Bryant","description":"\u003cp\u003eEmma Spaulding's life might have been the simple story of a nineteenth-century woman in rural Maine.  Instead, wooed by the ambitious John Emory Bryant, the Yankee Reconstruction activist and Georgia politician, she became the Civil War bride of a Republican carpetbagger intent on reforming the South.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe grueling years in the shadow of her husband's controversial political career gave her a backbone of steel and the convictions of an early feminist. Emma supported John's agenda-to \"northernize\" the South and work for civil rights for African-Americans- and frequently reflected on national political events. Struggling virtually alone to rear a daughter in near poverty, Emma became an independent thinker, suffragist, and officer in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn eloquent letters, Emma coached her husband's understanding of \"the woman question;\" their remarkable correspondence frames a marriage of love and summarizes John's career as it determined the contours of Emma's own story-from the bitter politics of Reconstruction Georgia to her world as a mother, writer, editor, and teacher in Tennessee and, with her husband, running a mission for the homeless in New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this extraordinary resource, Ruth Douglas Currie organizes and edits their  voluminous correspondence, enhancing the letters with an extensive introduction to Emma Spaulding Bryant's life, times, and legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515573690735,"sku":"9780823222742","price":271.89,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0921\/9384\/9711\/files\/0823222748.jpg?v=1790078034","url":"https:\/\/internacional.umlivro.com.br\/products\/emma-spaulding-bryant","provider":"UmLivro Internacional","version":"1.0","type":"link"}