O my America!:

Wheeler, Sara

O my America!: second acts in a new world - Jonathan Cape 2013 - xi, 267 pages

Includes bibliographical references and index

After reckoning with the ends of the earth in acclaimed books such as 'Terra Incognita' and 'The Magnetic North', Sara Wheeler rediscovered America 35 years after her first Greyhound trip across the country. She returns in turbulent midlife to trace the steps of 6 women who fled various sorts of trouble in 19th-century England and went to the United States to reinvent themselves.

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British--History--United States--19th century
Women travelers--History--United States--19th century


United States--Social conditions--19th century

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