| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.4

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Book Review

Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper. By Robert G. Barrows. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000. xxii, 229 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0-253-33774-7.)

The best regional biographies portray their subjects both as contributors to a larger mosaic and as swimmers in the currents of their times. In this class is Robert G. Barrows's biography of Albion Fellows Bacon, an indefatigable housing reformer from Evansville, Indiana. Gracefully written and respectful, Barrows's portrait of Bacon (a woman carrying her father's first name) adds nicely to our ever-more-complex image, or images, of Progressive Era women reformers. 1

The third daughter of Albion and Mary Fellows, young Albion lost her Methodist minister father to pneumonia. Her youth was spent in a single-parent household, which migrated several times between Evansville and tiny McCutchanville, her mother's family seat. Mary Fellows provided her daughters a classic rural childhood, centering on the Methodist church and the country schoolhouse. Albion and her sister Annie (later Annie Fellows Johnston, author of the Little Colonel children's books), like some other nineteenth-century sibling sets, created their own literary world, reading, writing, and drawing together. . . .

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