Jane Turner Censer is a professor emeritus of history and an author in the United States. She was written about Southern women. She wrote a book about Amélie Rives.[1][2] She appeared in C-Span discussing the book. She also appeared with Paul D. Escott discussing his book about Abraham Lincoln and enslaved African Americans.[3]

She graduated from Johns Hopkins University. She was a National Humanities Center Fellow in 1983 and 1984.[4] She was a professor at George Mason University.

She edited and wrote and introduction for Sherwood Bonner's feminist novel Like unto Like.

Writings edit

  • North Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800‑1860 Louisiana State University Press[5] (1984)[6]
  • The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895 (2003)[7]
  • The Princess of Albemarle: Amélie Rives, Author and Celebrity at the Fin de Siècle University of Virginia Press (2022)[8]

References edit

  1. ^ "Becoming an Author: Amélie Rives's Audacious Entrance into Publishing by Jane Censer Turner". Virginia Museum of History & Culture.
  2. ^ "Author's Corner with Jane Turner Censer, author of THE PRINCESS OF ALBEMARLE". www.upress.virginia.edu.
  3. ^ "Jane Turner Censer | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org.
  4. ^ "Jane Turner Censer, 1983–1984 | National Humanities Center".
  5. ^ "North Carolina Planters and Their Children, 1800--1860".
  6. ^ https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/90/2/489/126933?redirectedFrom=fulltext
  7. ^ McCandless, Amy Thompson (October 9, 2006). "Jane Turner Censer. The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865–1895. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2003. 316 pp. Cloth $44.65". History of Education Quarterly. 46 (3): 433–435. doi:10.1111/j.1748-5959.2006.00009.x – via Cambridge University Press.
  8. ^ "History and Art History | Faculty and Staff: Jane Turner..." History and Art History.