No silent witness: three generations of unitarian wives and daughters

This group biography follows three generations of ministers' daughters and wives in a famed American Unitarian family. Cynthia Tucker examines the Eliots, their religious tradition, and the Eliot women's largely neglected female vocation. Spanning 150 years from the early 19th century forward, the narrative isshaped into a series of stories. Each of six chapters takes up a different woman's experience, from the deaths of numerous children and the anguish of infertility to the suffocation of small parish life with its chronic loneliness, doubt, and resentment. INDICE: Acknowledgments; Major Events; Chart of The Eliot Forebears; 1.: The Unitarian Universe; 2.: Calling the Family Together; 3.: The Rush of Words; 4.: Where Words Fail; 5.: The Voice Coach; 6.: Reduced to a Whisper; 7.: Talking Back and Taking Flight; 8.: A Larger Sphere; 9.: New Rules of Engagement; 10.: Old Work and New; 11.: No Parting Word; The Family Roster; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index

• ISBN: 978-0-19-539020-9
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 256
• Fecha Publicación: 29/07/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés