The Anchor of My Life: Middle-Class American Mothers and Daughters, 1880-1920

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CONTENTS Preface i x 1. "Th e Central Proble m of Femal e Experience": 1 Introduction 2. "M y Girls' Mothers": The Emotionolog y o f Mother- 2 2 Daughter Relationships, 1880-192 0 3. "Cultura l Work": Mother-Daughter Relationship s 4 1 in Novel s 4. " A Girl's Best Friend": Adolescent Daughters and 7 0 Their Mother s 5. " I Am So Glad You Could Go to College": The "Ne w 9 1 Woman" and Her Mother 6. "W e Need Eac h Other": Adult Daughters and Their 11 4 Mothers 7. "Th e Revolt of the Daughters": Middle-Class English 13 4 Mothers and Daughter s 8. "Mothe r Drove U s in the Studebaker": American 16 7 Mothers and Daughters after 192 0 9. "Th e Anchor of My Life": Toward a History of 19 3 Mother-Daughter Relationship s vu Vlll CONTENTS Notes 21 7 Index 28 9 Illustrations appear a s a group followin g p . 80 ...