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- This work by Stearns relies entirely on primary source accounts of Mary’s life, including her publications and the letters and personal papers of Mary’s second husband, Thomas L. Nichols. Stearns primarily focuses on Mary’s activism and argues that these interests and colleagues render Mary unrepresentative of the average nineteenth-century woman.
- devoted to physiology, hydropathy, and the laws of life July 1851