Sylvia D. Hoffert

Sylvia D. Hoffert was a Distinguished Professor of History and Women’s Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She retired from Texas A & M University in 2011. She is the author of a wide variety of books and articles in the field of women’s history including Alva Vanderbilt Belmont: Unlikely Champion of Women’s Rights (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012). Her forthcoming book entitled Wagging Tongues and Tittle Tattle: Gossip, Rumor, and Reputation in a Small Southern Town will be published by the University of Georgia Press.

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