TY - BOOK AU - Baym,Nina TI - American women of letters and the nineteenth-century sciences: styles of affiliation SN - 0813529840 (alk. paper) AV - PS 217 .S34 B39 2002 PY - 2002/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press KW - American literature KW - 19th century KW - History and criticism KW - Literature and science KW - United States KW - History KW - Women and literature KW - Women authors KW - Women in science KW - Science KW - Women scientists KW - Science in literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-253) and index; Print and women's scientific affiliations -- Almira Phelps and the discipline of botany -- Sarah Hale and the circulation of science -- Catharine Esther Beecher and the sciences of home -- Susan Fenimore Cooper and ladies' science -- Elizabeth Cary Agassiz and heroic science -- Testing scientific limits: Emma Willard and Maria Mitchell -- Emily Dickinson and scientific skepticism -- The sciences in women's novels -- Women of letters and medical science -- Spiritual science UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/2001019805.ht ml ER -