Bohemians West : free love, family, and radicals in twentieth-century America / Sherry L. Smith.
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TextPublisher: Berkeley, California : Heyday, [2020]Description: xvi, 383 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781597145169
- 1597145165
- Free love, family, and radicals in twentieth-century America
- West (U.S.) -- History -- 1890-1945 -- Biography
- United States -- History -- 1901-1953 -- Biography
- Field, Sara Bard, 1882-1974
- Wood, Charles Erskine Scott, 1852-1944
- Man-woman relationships -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Radicalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1901-1953
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A historical biography of a radical relationship at the dawn of the 20th Century.
The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America, seeking change not only in labor picket lines and at women's suffrage rallies but also in homes and bedrooms. In the thick of this heady milieu were Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood, two aspiring poets whose love story uncovers a potent emotional world underneath this transformative time. Self-declared pioneers in free love, Sara and Erskine exchanged hundreds of letters that charted a new kind of romantic relationship, and their personal pursuits frequently came into contact with their deeply engaged political lives. As Sara's star rose in the suffrage movement, culminating in her making a cross-country car trip in 1915 and gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures for a petition to Congress, she began to ask questions about her own power in her relationship with Erskine. Charting a passionate and tumultuous relationship that spanned decades, Bohemians West offers a deeply personal look at a dynamic period in American history.Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of radicals and reformers fighting for a new America, seeking change not only in labor picket lines and at women's suffrage rallies but also in homes and bedrooms. In the thick of this heady milieu were Sara Bard Field and Charles Erskine Scott Wood, two aspiring poets whose love story uncovers a potent emotional world underneath this transformative time. Self-declared pioneers in free love, Sara and Erskine exchanged hundreds of letters that charted a new kind of romantic relationship, and their personal pursuits frequently came into contact with their deeply engaged political lives. As Sara's star rose in the suffrage movement, culminating in her making a cross-country car trip in 1915 and gathering hundreds of thousands of signatures for a petition to Congress, she began to ask questions about her own power in her relationship with Erskine. Charting a passionate and tumultuous relationship that spanned decades, Bohemians West offers a deeply personal look at a dynamic period in American history"-- Provided by publisher.