The Anchor of My Life: Middle-Class American Mothers and Daughters, 1880-1920

by Linda W. Rosenzweig

In The Anchor of My Life, Linda W. Rosenzweig draws on a wide range of primary sources--letters, diaries, autobiographies, prescriptive advice or 'self-help' literature, and fiction--to reveal the historical nuances of this pivotal relationship. Rosenzweig's distinctive approach focuses on the interaction between mothers and daughters of the American middle class at the turn of the century, revealing that mothers and daughters managed to sustain close, nurturing relationships in an era marked by a major female generation gap in terms of aspirations and opportunities.

310 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 1993

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