The Professional Pilgrim: Greenwood Sells The Transatlantic Experience
The Professional Pilgrim: Greenwood Sells The Transatlantic Experience
Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott, writing under the name ‘Grace Greenwood,’ challenged the domestic literary agenda of American publishers in the 1850s by drawing on her European experiences in a popular series of periodical and book publications. This now critically neglected friend and literary rival of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s once shocked him with her success, leading him to equate female ambition such as hers with prostitution, the world’s oldest profession. In her travel writing, Greenwood dealt in comic stereotypes rather than in the moral and philosophical exchanges that vitally engaged her peers. As the founding editor of The Little Pilgrim, a magazine for children, and the creator of a ‘juvenile public’ sphere, she displayed a fervent faith in both the educational value and the commercial power of transatlantic experience.
Keywords: Greenwood, Grace, Hawthorne, Nathaniel, Europe, Travel, Periodicals, Public sphere, The Little Pilgrim, Children, Domesticity
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