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Nancy Rubin Stuart

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Boston, Massachusetts , The United States

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Biography, Women's Lives, Social Trends & History

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Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author and journalist whose many traditionally published books specialize in women, biography and social history.

Her most recently published book is the acclaimed DEFIANT BRIDES; The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women Who Married Radical Men, a double biography of the wives of Benedict Arnold and General Henry Knox.This work was a selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club 2 and the History and Military Book Clubs.

She is currently completing a book about Benjamin Franklin’s Women for Beacon Press.

A former journalist, Nancy’s work has appeared in the New York Times, Huffington Post,The New England Quarterly, The Los Angeles Times,The Stamford Advocate, American History , Family Circle , Ladies ...more

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	American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post 4.03 avg rating — 868 ratings — published 1995 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married 3.60 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Poor Richard's Women: Ben Franklin in Love 3.77 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen 3.84 avg rating — 135 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation 3.57 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2008 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox 3.68 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women in the Literary Landscape by Doris Weatherford, Rosalind Reisner (Goodreads Author), Nancy Rubin Stuart (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother Mirror: How a Generation of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Suburban Woman really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1982 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Club Dance: The Show, The Steps, The Spirit of Country 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Like others who had once enjoyed an elite lifestyle, Lucy craved its return and whenever opportunity arrived, attempted to recreate it...By then no one questioned Lucy's role as the reigning hostess of celebrations, a role she continued to hold in public celebrations during the early Federal period.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Defiant Brides: The Untold Story of Two Revolutionary-Era Women and the Radical Men They Married

tags: american-history, early-federal-period, elite, hostess, lifestyle-quotes, lucy-knox-nir

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“one of Marjorie's boats, they were inevitably”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post

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“We have made cities out of our suburbs, and now, with the corporate drift form urban centers, are beginning to make suburbs out of our cities.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The New Suburban Woman

tags: corporate-flight-from-cities, exodus-from-cities, rise-of-suburbs, suburbs, urban-drift

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“Modern woman have discovered that living through another's reflection is simply not human enough.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Mother Mirror: How a Generation of Women Is Changing Motherhood in America

tags: female-empowerment, motherhood-taught-love-best-gift

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“We have made cities out of our suburbs, and now, with the corporate drift form urban centers, are beginning to make suburbs out of our cities.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The New Suburban Woman

tags: corporate-flight-from-cities, exodus-from-cities, rise-of-suburbs, suburbs, urban-drift

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“The suburban dream began innocently enough one and a half centuries ago, with a weariness of city life and a craving for all things green bright and pure.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The New Suburban Woman

tags: american-dream, flight-from-the-city, healthy-living-quotes, suburbs, the-good-life, urban-flight

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“Hysterical. That word had unfortunate ramifications.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart , American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post

tags: misogyny, women

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“Those who abuse political power create a debt of hatred that almost certainly brings them to a bad end.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, Isabella of Castile: The First Renaissance Queen

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