A Good and Caring Woman
The Life and Times of Nellie Tallman
by Julia Hornbostel

ISBN: 1–880090–30–9
Size: 6 x 9 • 272 pgs.
Price: $16.95

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In Janesville, Wisconsin, stands a Victorian house that once hosted visitors such as Abraham Lincoln. This was the home of Francis Cornelia Norton Tallman in the years between the Civil War and WW I. Using Tallman’s diaries, Historian Julia Hornbostel paints a picture of a vivacious time in American history. This fascinating book will touch every generation.

The late Julia Conkling Hornbostel was born in Philadelphia, graduated from Florida State University with a B.A. in English, and settled in Wisconsin. She completed graduate school at Indiana University on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. Hornbostel taught college English and Humanities courses beginning in 1964, first at Beloit College and then at the University of Wisconsin-Rock County. She helped establish the Women's Studies program on the University of Wisconsin's Centers Campuses in the early 1980s, and chaired the program in the years following.