Doomed romance : broken hearts, lost souls, and sexual tumult in nineteenth-century America

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Doomed romance : broken hearts, lost souls, and sexual tumult in nineteenth-century America

Title remainder

broken hearts, lost souls, and sexual tumult in nineteenth-century America

Statement of responsibility

Christine Leigh Heyrman

Creator

• Heyrman, Christine Leigh

Author

• Heyrman, Christine Leigh

Subject

• American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
• American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
• Biographies
• Biographies
• Biographies
• Biographies chrétiennes -- États-Unis
• Christian biography
• Christian biography -- United States
• Christian women
• Christian women -- United States -- Biography
• Chrétiennes -- États-Unis -- Biographies
• Enseignantes -- États-Unis -- Biographies
• Evangelicalism -- Social aspects
• Evangelicalism -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Femmes -- États-Unis -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle
• Gridley, Elnathan, 1796-1827
• Gridley, Elnathan, 1796-1827
• History
• Missionaries
• Missionaries -- United States -- Biography
• Missionaries' spouses
• Missionaries' spouses -- United States -- Biography
• Missionnaires -- Conjoints -- États-Unis -- Biographies
• Missionnaires -- États-Unis -- Biographies
• New England
• New England -- Religious life and customs
• Nouvelle-Angleterre -- Vie religieuse
• Rôle selon le sexe -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
• Sex role
• Sex role -- Religious aspects | Congregational Churches
• Sex role -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Social conditions
• Tenney, Martha T. Parker, 1804-1876
• Tenney, Thomas, 1798-1873
• Triangle (Relations humaines) -- États-Unis
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
• Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- United States
• United States
• United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Women -- Social conditions
• Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Women teachers
• Women teachers -- United States -- Biography
• collective biographies
• 1800-1899
• États-Unis -- Conditions sociales -- 19e siècle
• 19e siècle, Évangélisme -- Aspect social -- États-Unis -- Histoire

Genre

• History
• collective biographies
• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

• "A study of sexual politics in 19th century New England through the life of one woman"--
• Martha Parker was a gifted young New England woman, aspiring to become an educator and a foreign missionary. Late in 1825 she accepted a proposal from a schoolmaster, Thomas Tenney, only to reject him several weeks later for a rival suitor: Elnathan Gridley, a clergyman headed for the mission field. Tenney's male friends, deeply resentful of the new prominence of women in academies, benevolent and reform associations, and the mission field, decided to retaliate on Tenney's behalf by sending an anonymous letter to the head of the foreign missions board impugning Martha's character. Tenney further threatened Martha with revealing even more about their relationship, thereby ruining her future prospects as a missionary. The resulting investigation created a scandal that ruined Martha Parker's hopes, provoked a resistance within evangelical ranks, and ultimately threatened to destroy the foreign missions enterprise. -- adapted from Amazon info

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult