Golden Cables of Sympathy

The Transatlantic Sources of Nineteenth-Century Feminism

Margaret H. McFadden

• Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9780813193021
  9780813121178
• eBook ISBN:
  9780813184562
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Women in History
• Index: Social Sciences

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction: On Beginning to Tell a “Best-Kept Secret”
• 1 Weaving the Delicate Web: Lucretia Mott and Succeeding Generations
• 2 Paving the Way: The “Miraculous Era” in Communication and the “Unprotected Female”
• 3 The Ironies of Pentecost: Women Religious and Evangelistic Outreach
• 4 Unwitting Allies: Harriet Beecher Stowe, George Sand, and the Power of Literary Celebrity
• 5 A Developing Consciousness: Revolutionaries, Refugees, and Expatriates
• 6 Higher Consciousness: Reformers and Utopians
• 7 Mothers of the Matrix (I): Anna Doyle Wheeler, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Forms of Feminism
• 8 Mothers of the Matrix (II): Fredrika Bremer, Frances Power Cobbe and “World”-Traveling
• 9 “A Golden Cable of Sympathy”: Aleksandra Gripenberg, the Finland Connection, and the 1888 Council of Women
• Appendix A: Some Atlantic Community Women with International Links
• Appendix B: The Relevance and Irrelevance to This Study of Social Network Analysis
• Appendix C: Adventurers and Invalids
• Appendix D: International Governesses
• Appendix E: Women Transatlantic Entrepreneurs in the Nineteenth Century
• Appendix F: Women Artists Abroad
• Notes
• Works Cited
• Index