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Sto caricando le informazioni... American Saint: The Life of Elizabeth Seton (edizione 2014)di Joan Barthel (Autore), Maya Angelou (Prefazione)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. NF; NF ; signed ; first edition Elizabeth Seton led a very full life. As part of an influential family, she interacted with many of the founding fathers and other important political figures. A brave voyage to Italy in search of a cure for her husband led to her conversion to Catholicism, despite the social stigma associated with being a Catholic. Both before and after her conversion, she helped lead charitable institutions devoted to helping women and as a Catholic, she fought for women’s rights within the church. I loved the way the author started this book with an immediate connection to modern day women’s rights issues within the Catholic Church. I also enjoyed her storytelling. There were very vivid place descriptions, which I appreciated both for their beauty and their likely factual basis. I suspect determining the way a place looked in the past is much easier than verifying how people were feeling. That makes vivid descriptions a nice way to spice up narrative non-fiction without taking liberties with the facts. The author did a great job including direct quotes to cover the more personal aspects of the story, which also made the story seem more reliable and more vividly real. Unfortunately, as the story progressed, the author began commenting on the direct quotes she shared. These comments often included the author’s interpretation of Elizabeth’s religious views and became annoyingly preachy. This interrupted the story, as did the author’s choice to skip around in time. Personally, I always prefer a story be told in chronological order, with no more than two timelines running at once. This book broke from that format in sometimes confusing ways. The strangely abrupt chapter endings didn’t help either. Despite the problems with the construction of the story, I thought this was pretty well done narrative non-fiction. The book seemed well written and well researched. Someone who was more interested in the details of Elizabeth Seton’s religious views and didn’t mind a bit of preaching might be able to enjoy this much more than I did. The book does also give a small but interesting glimpse of the modern Catholic Church, which could be of broader interest. This review first published on Doing Dewey. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
"In this riveting biography of Elizabeth Seton critically acclaimed and bestselling author Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life featured wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York City family in 1774. Her father was the chief health officer for the Port of New York and she lived down the block from Alexander Hamilton. She danced at George Washington's sixty-fifth Birthday Ball wearing cream slippers, monogrammed. Catholicism was illegal in New York when she was born; Catholic priests seen in the city were arrested, sometimes hung. When Elizabeth and her wealthy husband Will sailed to Italy in a doomed attempt to cure his tuberculosis, she and her family were quarantined in a damp dungeon. And when Elizabeth later became a Catholic, she was so scorned that people talked of burning down her house. American Saint is the inspiring story of a brave woman who forged the way for the other women who followed and who made a name for herself in a world entirely ruled by men. Elizabeth began the fight for women's rights in the church that is still being fought today, and the publication of her story could not be more timely. Maya Angelou has contributed the foreword"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)271.9102Religions History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity Religious Congregations and Orders in Church history Orders of Women Sisters of Charity; Vincent de Paul founded A.D. 1629 Etudes Biographical studiesClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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