Author: Leigh Fought File Type: pdf In his extensive writings, Frederick Douglass revealed little about his private life. His famous autobiographies present him overcoming unimaginable trials to gain his freedom and establish his identity-all in service to his public role as an abolitionist. But in both the public and domestic spheres, Douglass relied on a complicated array of relationships with women white and black, slave-mistresses and family, political collaborators and intellectual companions, wives and daughters. And the great man needed them throughout a turbulent life that was never so linear and self-made as he often wished to portray it. In *Women in the World of Frederick Douglass*, Leigh Fought illuminates the life of the famed abolitionist off the public stage. She begins with the women he knew during his life as a slave his mother, from whom he was separated his grandmother, who raised him his slave mistresses, including the one who taught him how to read and his first wife, Anna Murray, a free woman who helped him escape to freedom and managed the household that allowed him to build his career. Fought examines Douglasss varied relationships with white women-including Maria Weston Chapman, Julia Griffiths, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Ottilie Assing--who were crucial to the success of his newspapers, were active in the antislavery and womens movements, and promoted his work nationally and internationally. She also considers Douglasss relationship with his daughter Rosetta, who symbolized her parents middle class prominence but was caught navigating between their public and private worlds. Late in life, Douglass remarried to a white woman, Helen Pitts, who preserved his papers, home, and legacy for history. By examining the circle of women around Frederick Douglass, this work brings these figures into sharper focus and reveals a fuller and more complex image of the self-proclaimed womans rights man. ** ### Review In this well-researched and richly textured book, Leigh Fought gives us a fascinating new view into the life and times of one our most famous and revered figures Frederick Douglass. As he freely acknowledged, women helped make Douglass the man he became. So we, too, are in debt to the women whose stories come so vividly alive in these pages. - Annette Gordon-Reed, author of *The Hemingses of Monticello An American Family* Foughts book takes us into the Douglass households and makes them come alive. Two wives, two intimate European friends, a grandmother, a fascinating daughter, many granddaughters, as well as fictive sisters and other kin all inhabit this work of deep scholarship. Fought is an intrepid researcher and lucid writer with superb judgment. The women and Douglass himself come alive anew through these crucial relationships the man who expressed so little about his private life is here brought under a bright light, not with prurience, but with analytical understanding and keen sympathy. This is the most important Douglass book in many years. - David W. Blight, Yale University With meticulous research and judicious analysis, Leigh Fought resurrects the women who until now lay hidden in the shadows of Frederick Douglasss storied life. Whether one agrees with her or not, this book is well worth the read. - Manisha Sinha, author of *The Slaves Cause A History of* *Abolition* Leigh Fought reimagines Douglasss life by placing women at the center of the narrative. She offers vivid portraits of the relatives, friends, and sister activists-enslaved and free, black and white, American and British--who provided Douglass with critical emotional, material, intellectual, and political support. These women helped shape and sustain Douglass throughout his life and ensured his legacy for future generations their legacy, too, is now ensured in this lively and lucid book. - Nancy A. Hewitt, author of *No Permanent Waves Recasting Histories of U.S. Feminism* [Douglasss] life, argues the author persuasively, was shaped by women... A fresh and insightful perspective on a major historical figure.--*Kirkus* This is a fascinating account of an impressive man and the equally accomplished women who supported his monumental efforts to secure freedom and rights for blacks and women.--*Booklist*, Starred Review [Frederick Douglass was] one of the ages most passionate male feminists, as Leigh Fought shows in *Women in the World of Frederick Douglass*, a fresh and surprising account of Douglasss life.--*Wall Street Journal* By making its focus those indomitable and sometimes troubling women, Fought has written an engaging book that is compelling, sometimes even fierce, and extremely relevant.--*Arts Fuse* ### About the Author **Leigh Fought** is Assistant Professor of History at LeMoyne College. She is the author of *Southern Womanhood and Slavery A Biography of Louisa S. McCord* and an editor of *The Frederick Douglass Papers Series Three Correspondence, Volume 1 1842-1852*.

Author: Lara Candland File Type: pdf The Lapidarys Nosegay, Lara Candlands primer of poems, presents to readers a bouquet of resplendent poems that Candland has created, collaged, curated, and reimagined by using the rich floral and gem imagery in the poetry of Emily Dickinson as her primary source material. Dickinson and Candland share linguistic and theological roots in the Bible, nineteenth-century American Protestantism, and a lexicon distinctive to their specific individuarian communities, and this collection of poems draws a serpentine kind of map across nearly two centuries, journeying from Amherst, Massachusetts, to Provo, Utah, from Dickinsons severe and lush New England to Candlands own jagged, harsh, and stunning high desert Utah.The Lapidarys Nosegayexplores the ways that both poets have simultaneously challenged and embraced the axiomatic constraints of religion, landscape, and cultural conventions and expectations of each poets time and place. Aesthetically, Candland attempts to challenge the hierarchies of the page through linguistic, typographic, and sonic experimentation.The Lapidarys Nosegaycarries Dickinsonian echoes to alliterative and parenthetic excessivities that indicate sound stresses or that pictographically invoke sun, god, ghosts, ecstasy, and the jewels and flowers tumbling throughout Dickinsons own poems. This collection works at toppling textual hierarchies, systematically jumbling sound, text, meaning, symbol, and context and entering the vein of radical American aesthetics, politics, and culture that have shaped Candlands life and poetics. **