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British biographer and travel writer Wheeler (The Magnetic North) turns her attention to six Englishwomen—Fanny Trollope, Fanny Kemble, Harriet Martineau, Isabella Bird, Catherine Hubback, and Rebecca Burlend—who reinvented themselves in America during their "second acts" in middle age. They came from a variety of backgrounds—they were, respectively, an author, an actress, an early sociologist, an explorer, Jane Austen's niece, and a tenant farmer—but all wrote ext...Log In or Sign Up to Read More