| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Canada and the United States

Deborah Pickman Clifford. The Passion of Abby Hemenway: Memory, Spirit, and the Making of History. Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England. 2001. Pp. x, 350. Cloth $40.00, paper $24.95.

This biography of Abby Maria Hemenway (1828–1890), who edited a local history of her native Vermont, is a recovery of a shadowy life. Deborah Pickman Clifford has used all that the skimpy record provides in order to understand the accomplishment of a woman driven by her vision of history and by her faith in the power of historical story telling. 1

After an early career as a teacher, Hemenway edited a volume of Vermont poetry and then, despite social and intellectual opposition, created the Vermont Quarterly Gazetteer, a quarterly historical magazine devoted to local history, written by volunteer local historians. Hemenway organized the work alphabetically by county, took subscriptions to finance the project, and aimed to consolidate the results into bound volumes. She planned to include every town in every county—an unprecedented ambition. 2

Despite a hiatus during the Civil War, Hemenway had published eleven numbers of the Quarterly Gazetteer by 1867, when she republished them as the first of the five volumes of the Vermont Historical Gazetteer. Although most of the histories were written by local residents, Hemenway wrote some of the essays and edited and added to others. They are mixtures of local lore, statistics, vital records, and family biographies. . . .

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