The valiant woman : the Virgin Mary in nineteenth-century American culture / Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez.

Author: Alvarez, Elizabeth Hayes, author.

Imprint:Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Descriptionxii, 241 pages : ill. ; 24 cm

Note:The immaculate conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary : conflict and conversation, 1854-1855 -- The immaculate conception and the elevation of the feminine, 1855-1860s -- "The woman highly blessed" : Marian art and Anna Jameson's "great hope," 1850s-1870s -- Revitalizing church and culture : the Marian heroines of Anna Dorsey and Alexander Stewart Walsh, 1880s-1890s -- Queen of heaven and queen of the home : Mary and models of domestic queenship, 1880s-1900 -- Epilogue. The immaculate conception proclamation's semicentennial.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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