Published in 1904, three years before his death, Conway's Autobiography is a peaceful and introspective account of a compelling life. Born to a slave-owning Methodist family in Virginia, Conway (1832-1907) turned away from his roots to become a proponent of anti-slavery, free religion, reform and women's suffrage. Observing and becoming involved in the developments of late nineteenth-century religious, political, scientific, literary and artistic thought, he formed friendships with central figures of the age, such as Ralph ...
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Published in 1904, three years before his death, Conway's Autobiography is a peaceful and introspective account of a compelling life. Born to a slave-owning Methodist family in Virginia, Conway (1832-1907) turned away from his roots to become a proponent of anti-slavery, free religion, reform and women's suffrage. Observing and becoming involved in the developments of late nineteenth-century religious, political, scientific, literary and artistic thought, he formed friendships with central figures of the age, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Carlyle, which feature in the work alongside his devoted family life. Volume 1 describes his childhood and education; antebellum Virginia and Maryland; Concord and Harvard with Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau; and Washington and Cincinnati on the eve of civil war. It also covers his arrival in England in 1863 and his first encounters at London's South Place Chapel and in the circles of social, legal and religious reform.
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New. Print on demand Trade paperback (US). Cambridge Library Collection - North American History ; Autobiography 2 Volume Set . 1 b/w illus. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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New. Print on demand Trade paperback (US). Autobiography 2 Volume Set ; Cambridge Library Collection - North American History . 1 b/w illus. Intended for professional and scholarly audience.
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Very good. Two volume complete set! Maroon cloth boards, octavos, illustrated in b&w. Books have sun to spines, rubbing and shelfwear to boards, spine ends and corners worn, bindings tight, texts have toning to endpapers, texts clean and unmarked but toned throughout, with gilt to top edges of blocks, rear inner hinge of first volume cracked but holding.
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G (Ex-library, with usual library markings, bookplate on front inside cover, pocket and discoloration at back inside cover, perforation stamp used on illus., pages are generally clean but with worn edges, v.2 has good binding, v.1 has bad black tape... Maroon cloth, gilt-edged page tops, 451, 482 pp., 12 + 11 BW plates (some facsimiles). Moncure Daniel Conway (1832-1907) was an American author, abolitionist, and Unitarian minister. Though born in Virginia, he spent time in Concord, Massachusetts, with the aging Transcendentalists. He met a number of key people in his life, and his memoirs are enlightening in this regard.
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