Volume 32, Number 8 · May 9, 1985
Working Woman
By Jean Strouse
Alice Hamilton: A Life in Letters
by Barbara Sicherman
Harvard University Press, 460 pp., $25.00
Returning from Europe to America for a long visit in 1905, Henry James found the predominance of women 'the sentence written largest in the American sky.' James meant social and cultural predominance, but a quick look at the names of some women born between 1860 and 1880, who were coming into their own around the turn of the century, suggests that these adventurers were reaching well beyond the Jamesian drawing room: the list includes Gertrude Stein, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Margaret Sanger, Jeannette Rankin, Frances Perkins, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Edith Hamilton, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Grandma Moses—as well as countless others who never became famous but, who had, as James put it, 'quite a new story to tell.'
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