Source
Legacy
Volume 22, Number 1, 2005
pp. 77-78 | 10.1353/leg.2005.0003
Lois Brown - Some Wild Visions: Autobiographies by Female Itinerant Evangelists in Nineteenth-Century America (review) - Legacy 22:1 Legacy 22.1 (2005) 77-78 Some Wild Visions: Autobiographies by Female Itinerant Evangelists in Nineteenth-Century America. By Elizabeth Elkin Grammer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 211 pp. $45.00. Some Wild Visions, by Elizabeth Elkin Grammer, is an insightful consideration of seven nineteenth-century female itinerant evangelists and their purposeful and strategically deployed memoirs. Grammer offers an insistently literary assessment, rather than historical analysis, of autobiographies by free and formerly enslaved women, abolitionist and temperance activists, mid-westerners, and a Canadian native. Over the course of...
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