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Waugh does a good job with contextualizing JS Lowell's life within her time. I found this to be much better than the William Rhinelander (he's got another last name in there too but I don't remember it off the top of my head right now) penned biography. Waugh has historical time and personal distance to avoid any bias that the Rhinelander volume suffers---they were friends and worked together after Roosevelt died. He describes her in a very personal way which is nice, but not real helpful for what I was looking for.
I only read through for the sections concerning JSL's charity work and subsequent move to open the Hudson House of Refuge. I cannot speak for anything after that. It seems that Lowell was an impressive woman and a bit of an oddity for a time when the ideology of separate spheres ruled Victorian America. She both worked to improve the public for all and worked with mostly men. Even maintaining friendships with them (gasp)--though I suspect that has something to do with being a widow who wore black for the rest of her life.
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I only read through for the sections concerning JSL's charity work and subsequent move to open the Hudson House of Refuge. I cannot speak for anything after that. It seems that Lowell was an impressive woman and a bit of an oddity for a time when the ideology of separate spheres ruled Victorian America. She both worked to improve the public for all and worked with mostly men. Even maintaining friendships with them (gasp)--though I suspect that has something to do with being a widow who wore black for the rest of her life.
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