First Steps -- Apprentice in a Family Music Business -- Philadelphia Debut -- A Young Professor of Music -- A New Leaf -- Her Own Woman -- Courtship and Consequences -- Pilgrim in Progress -- "Glad Fruition" -- Legacy in Music -- Legacy in Literature -- Contributions to Music Journalism -- A Legacy Written into History -- Appendixes: 1. Children and Descendants of David Samuel Browne and Elizabeth Montgomery Browne -- 2. Chronology of Augusta Browne's Music and Letters -- 3. List of Musical Works -- 4. Selected Glossary
Summary:
"The first comprehensive biography of any American woman musician born before the Civil War brings to life a composer whose story is both old-fashioned and strikingly modern"-- Provided by publisher.
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