Healthy heroines: Sue Barton, Lillian Wald, Lavinia Lloyd Dock and the Henry Street settlement

Article Abstract:

Helen Dore Boylston's fictional student nurse Sue Barton is portrayed in contemporary cover illustrations as a young girl forced to choose between her career and romance, but such a dilemma does not occur in the novels, first published in 1936. The love interest appears fleetingly and the romantic storyline is secondary to Sue's career progression. Dore Boylston had a feminist stance after serving as a nurse in France during World War I, and she portrays nursing as a means of affording women professional status and financial independence as well as a means of contributing towards the social good.

Women, Nurses, Portrayals, Dore Boylston, Helen

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"Be Up and Doing": Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and poetic labor

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The title "poet" was a kind of dream identity for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which he wished for and also worked towards achieving it. His popular poems "The Village Blacksmith" and "Psalm of Life" are discussed which echoed the patterns of thought- resolve, striving, action- stressed by an emerging body of prescriptive literature directed toward young men.

Appreciation, Works, Poets, America, Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Reassessing Henry Carey (1793-1879): The problems of writing political economy in nineteenth-century America

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Research examining Henry Carey's writings of political economy is presented. Particular attention is given to Carey's representation of the American protectionism and the injustices against lower classes in Great Britain due to the centralized economic system.

Economics, Political aspects, Carey, Henry

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