Summary
Traces the steps of six women--author Fanny Trollope, actress Fanny Kemble, economist Harriet Martineau, homesteader Rebecca Burlend, traveler Isabella Bird ,and novelist Catherine Hubback--who came to America in the nineteenth century to start new lives. Full description
- Merely telling the truth : Fanny Trollope goes to Ohio
- Brave new world : Fanny Kemble goes to Georgia
- A great embryo poet: Harriet Martineau goes to Massachusetts and Kentucky
- Is this America? : Rebecca Burlend goes to Illinois
- Above love and hate : Isabella Bird goes to Colorado
- No there there : Catherine Hubback goes to California.