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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

To Be Young Was Very Heaven: Women in New York before the First World War. By Sandra Adickes. (New York: St. Martin's, 1997. x, 294 pp. $35.00, isbn 0-312-16249-9.)

Sandra Adickes's To Be Young Was Very Heaven describes the first wave of feminists in Greenwich Village in New York City between the years 1900 and 1914. Adickes focuses on the "three great struggles of the era"—suffrage, birth control, and economic independence. The title of her book derives from a line of poetry by William Wordsworth that the Greenwich Village radical poet Genevieve Taggard invoked in her anthology May Days (1925) in order to, according to Adickes, "express the mood of the city in those years." Adickes is enamored with Greenwich Village before World War I. She describes the Village as a place "where people were young and free, but serious, with high ethical standards. There . . . for a brief time, art and politics, earnestness and good companionship mingled." She writes that "politics made bedfellows, especially since the young people . . . were so physically attractive." . . .

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