After a professional career as a news reporter, editor and college professor Ann Callaghan Allen retired from teaching in the Department of Communication and Film Studies at Le Moy...visualizza altroAfter a professional career as a news reporter, editor and college professor Ann Callaghan Allen retired from teaching in the Department of Communication and Film Studies at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York. She returned to her hometown of Oswego, New York, and wrote her first book, The Madame's Business , chronicling the life of Malvina Guimaraes, an early entrepreneur who challenged the social norms of the day and built a financial empire, only to see it threatened by an unscrupulous husband who had nineteenth-century law and conventional thinking about a woman's place on his side.visualizza meno