Background
Stevenson, Louise was born on June 11, 1948 in Glen Cove. Daughter of Mary Louise (Lord) Stevenson.
( In The Victorian Homefront, Louise L. Stevenson offers ...)
In The Victorian Homefront, Louise L. Stevenson offers a concise and fascinating portrait of the intellectual lives of ordinary Americans from the Civil War through Reconstruction. She begins where any Victorian would: in the parlor, with an analysis of the material trappings of middle-class self-improvement. From parlor tables and reading chairs, albums and stereoscopes, and houseplants and fancywork, she moves to the books and reading activities that the parlor hosted and encouraged, and then outward to public institutions of learning, both informal and formal. Stevenson constructs a convincing framework for understanding the intellectual aspirations and activities of middle-class women, children, former slaves, African-American college students, and others in the context of the goals of the nineteenth-century literary and intellectual elite.
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Stevenson, Louise was born on June 11, 1948 in Glen Cove. Daughter of Mary Louise (Lord) Stevenson.
Bachelor in American Studies cum laude/with honors, Barnard College, 1970. Master of Arts in History, New York University, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy American and New England, Boston University, 1981.
Visiting lecturer department history University New Hampshire, Durham, 1981-1982. Assistant professor department history and American studies program Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1982-1989, associate professor department history and American studies program, 1989-1996, professor department history and American studies program, since 1996. Member Merle Curti award committee Organization American Historians, 1985-1991.
( In The Victorian Homefront, Louise L. Stevenson offers ...)
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Trustee James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation, since 1995, Lancaster League of Women Voters, 1996-1902, Community Economics Foundation, Lancaster. Member American Antiquarian Society (advisory committee history of the book 1991-1996, also board overseers), American Studies Association (secretary-treasurer mid-Atlantic chapter since 1984), American History Association, Organization American Historians, History of Education Society, Intellectual History Group (member editl board newsletter 1985-1991), Society on History of Authorship, Reading, Public.
Married April 26, 1981. Children: Katherine L. Zimmerman, Lila S. Zimmerman.