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In her own name, a nineteenth-century wife and her pursuit of financial independence, Fredrica Wachsberger ; foreword by Natalie A. Naylor

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In her own name, a nineteenth-century wife and her pursuit of financial independence, Fredrica Wachsberger ; foreword by Natalie A. Naylor

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

individual biography

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portraitsmapsillustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In her own name

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

Fredrica Wachsberger ; foreword by Natalie A. Naylor

Sub title

a nineteenth-century wife and her pursuit of financial independence

Summary

"When Jane C. Hubbard of Orient, New York, on the eastern tip of the North Fork, realized that after fifteen years of marriage her coasterman husband was still not earning enough to move the family out of rented rooms, she went to work. When she had earned enough to buy property for a house, she bought it in her own name. A rich collection of family letters and documents preserved by Orient artist William Steeple Davis and now in the Oysterponds Historical Society archive, reveals the many and varied efforts made by his grandmother, Jane Hubbard, to provide financial security for her family ... "--Back cover

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