| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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Lori Kenschaft. Reinventing Marriage: The Love and Work of Alice Freeman Palmer and George Herbert Palmer. (Women in American History.) Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press. 2005. Pp. 279. $35.00.

This book explores the personal and professional relationship of two nineteenth century intellectuals, Alice Freeman Palmer and George Herbert Palmer. Using a rich trove of primary sources, Lori Kenschaft reads letters, diaries, poems and other documents against a broad secondary literature to place the Palmers' private and public lives in broader social context. One of the first women to graduate from the University of Michigan, Alice Freeman taught history at Wellesley College beginning in 1877, and became its first official female president in 1881. She was already a minor celebrity when she met George Palmer in 1886. George, while less nationally famous, was a popular professor in Harvard's philosophy department, and a colleague of William James and George Santayana. Recognizing her potentially fatal tuberculosis at their first meeting, George encouraged Alice to leave Wellesley and seek alternative avenues for productive work. Throughout their courtship and marriage (in 1887), they debated the meaning of love and higher education, and in the process attempted to meet the challenges of a dual-career marriage.

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