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Wild Women: Crusaders, Curmudgeons, and Completely Corsetless Ladies in the Otherwise Virtuous Victorian Era Paperback – Download: Adobe Reader, November 15, 1992

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A fascinating and sometimes humorous glimpse into the lives of 150, 19th-century American women who refused to whittle themselves down to the Victorian model of proper womanhood. 50-black-and-white photos.

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Autumn Stephens was born in a New Mexico mining community whose population began to dwindle shortly after her arrival (though she swears this was mere coincidence) and finally faded from the map altogether. She spent the rest of her childhood in Eugene, Oregon. Initially, she intended to become a psychologist, but when she noticed that her introductory psych classes at Stanford University tended to focus on the behavior of rats rather than that of human beings, she signed up as a Creative Writing major instead. During several subsequent years as an afterhours creative writer;daytime wageslave, Stephens worked as a medical coder, a phone sex script writer, a composer of fraudulent Tarot prognostications, and something called a "special investigator" for the State Bar of California. More than any other experience, however, her stint as an oldfashioned legal secretary (among other absurdities, the job involved the daily composition of a hearthealthy salad for a highmaintenance male boss) honed the deliciously snide feminist sensibility which informs Stephens' writing today. (Well, okay, growing up more or less concurrently with the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s helped too.) Stephens is the author of the popular Wild Women books published by Conari Press, including Wild Women, Wild Women in the White House, Wild Words from Wild Women, Loose Cannons, Drama Queens, and Out of the Mouths of Babes. Stephens also freelances for magazines, reviews women's writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, and enjoys an entirely attorneyfree lifestyle. Currently, she lives in Berkeley, Californiaa city which she would like better were it not for an uncharacteristically restrictive ordinance against raising miniature pigs in one's backyard. Her hobbies are sleeping and reading trashy celebrity magazines.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Conari Press; 1st Paperback Edition (November 15, 1992)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0943233364
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0943233369
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.5 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.75 x 7 inches

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sue

Horrible editing

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 8, 2021

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I would have loved the book if all the stories were complete. In the kindle edition some were cut off in mid sentence and you have to guess "the rest of the story" What was complete was interesting but the disappointing editing was disapointing

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Melinda Jane Harrison

Witty and Wise!

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I don't know what I expected but this is an extremely witty book. But it's also a very wise book. Stephens has written dozens and dozens of wonderful essays on some very remarkable women. I loved them all, but somehow I found myself lingering among those Controversial Curers and Ingenious Invalids! I must identify! Oh, dear, but then again, Charlotte Gilman Perkins is there, so what can I say? There are funny details, interesting facts, nice photographs and even quotes that will make your days pass by in sober reflection. Don't let the wit overwhelm the sober. A wonderful edition for ALL collections on women in history. Now if only I could get my hands on one of Lydia Pinkham's cure for PMS! You can find her grave online too. She was a marvel!

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Cynthia L Sanders

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 19, 2018

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one read-thru & pass it on.

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dennyt

Nice gift for Victorian enthusiast!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 2, 2016

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I gave this book as a gift to my sister. She seemed to be very pleased as she really is interested in this era.

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Wild Women: Crusadetrs, Curmudgeons, and Completely Corsettless Ladies in Victorian Era

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Interested in Ladies of varied interests and who made a statement with their lives that helped other ladies see life in a new self discovery ways.

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Yeah! Speak to me mommy!

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very pleased

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Impossible Font and Writing Style!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 12, 2015

Whew! I am finally finished reading this book. You wouldn't think I would have such a bad reaction to a book about strong womyn. And honestly, the knowledge contained within this book is amazing. I did learn a lot about many ladies. I learned a lot about that era of history, also. If it hadn't taken me SO long to read it, I would have given it lots of stars for the educational feature alone.

So why the low rating? The font was impossible for me to read. It is dark black font against a bright white background and the lines are spaced too close together. So I could only handle one or two pages at a time. Luckily, each bio is a page and a half so even though it hurt my eyes I could read at least that much in a day. And that might have been enough unto itself, but the author's writing style was SO annoying. Alliterations and other pitiful poetic word choices built into very long complicated sentences, like this one, made me have to go back and reread whole paragraphs. When you already have tracking problems, this cutesy writing becomes very annoying. Often the choice of words makes for a very confusing read.

If you have great eyes this may be a fun read for you. If so, enjoy! My eyes need a vacation. Back to Kindles for me!

By the way, this copy is a BookCrossing book. BCID 142-11420919 Check out where it's heading and where it's been on BookCrossing.com

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