Tracing the history of four English case studies, this book explores how, from outward appearance to interior furnishings, the material worlds of reform institu

Tracing the history of four English case studies, this book explores how, from outward appearance to interior furnishings, the material worlds of reform institu

Elizabeth Blackwell, though born in England, was reared in the United States and was the first woman to receive a medical degree here, obtaining it from the Gen

Claude Wheeler is a young man who was born after the American frontier has vanished. The son of a successful farmer and an intensely pious mother, Wheeler is gu