Patricia Cohen

Women at Large: Travel in Antebellum America

How easy or safe was it for women who travelled - often alone - in the new American republic? Patricia Cline Cohen charts their progress - and perils - and the way in which public transport helped shape the gender system.

Published December 1 1994

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