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Author/Creator:Spitale, Leonard C., author.
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Title:Victorine du Pont : The Force behind the Family / Leonard C. Spitale.
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ISBN:9781644532799
9781644532768
9781644532775
9781644532782
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Publication:Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2023]
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Manufacture: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023
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Copyright notice date: ©[2023]
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Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Links:Online book
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Summary:"Victorine Elizabeth du Pont, the first child of Eleuthere Irenee du Pont and his wife Sophie, was seven years old when her family emigrated to America, where her father established the humble beginnings of what would become a corporate giant. Through correspondence with friends and relatives from the ages of eight to sixty-eight, Victorine unwittingly chronicled the first sixty years of the du Pont saga in America. As she recovered from personal tragedy, she became first tutor of her siblings and relations. This biography makes the case that Victorine has had the broadest-and most enduring-influence within the entire du Pont family of any family member. The intellectual heir of her venerable grandfather, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, although Victorine grew up in an age where women's opportunities were limited, her pioneering efforts in education, medicine, and religion transformed an entire millworkers' community"--
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Variant and related titles:Project MUSE complete collection 2023.
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Series:Cultural studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore
Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Contents:France, 1792-1795 -- America's Turn -- Wilmington, Delaware -- Emergence -- Post-Rivardi Years -- Ferdinand -- Mourning on the Brandywine -- Departures and Arrivals -- Life and Spirit on the Brandywine -- The Brandywine Manufacturer's Sunday School -- A New Superintendent -- Second Mother -- A Growing Family, a Thriving Community -- National Recognition -- Legacies and Conflicts -- Loss and Restoration -- A Time to Build -- Bells -- Feeling an Interest -- Nearing Home -- Pathway's End.
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Subjects: Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817--Family.
Du Pont family.
Bauduy, Victorine du Pont, 1792-1861.
Dupont (Famille)
Du Pont family.
Du Pont de Nemours, Pierre Samuel, 1739-1817.
Bauduy, Victorine du Pont, 1792-1861.
School superintendents--Delaware--Wilmington--Biography.
Christian women--Delaware--Wilmington--Biography.
School superintendents.
Families.
Christian women.
Wilmington (Del.)--Biography.
Brandywine Creek Valley (Pa. and Del.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
United States--Brandywine Creek Valley.
Delaware--Wilmington.
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Genre/Form:Biographies.
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Also listed under:Project Muse. distributor
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/16710502