Download or read book Lucy Stone written by Andrea Moore Kerr and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No study of women's history in the United States is complete without an account of Lucy Stone's role in the nineteenth-century drive for legal and political rights for women.This first fully documented biography of Stone describes her rapid rise to fame and power and her later attempt at an equitable mariage. Lucy Stone was a Massachusetts newspaper editor, abolitionist, and charismatic orator for the women's rights movement in the last half of the nineteenth century. She was deeply involved in almost every reform issue of her time. Charles Sumner, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Julia Ward Howe, Horace Greeley, and Louisa May Alcott counted themselves among her friends. Through her public speaking and her newspaper, the Woman's Journal, Stone became the most widely admired woman's rights spokeswoman of her era. In the nineteenth century, Lucy Stone was a household name. Kerr begins with Stone's early roots in a poor family in western Massachusetts. She eventually graduated from Oberlin College and then became a full-time public speaker for an anti-slavery society and for women's rights. Despite Stone's strident anti-marriage ideology, she eventually wed Henry Brown Blackwell, and had her first child at the age of thirty-nine. Although Kerr tells us about Stone's public accomplishments, she emphasizes Stone's personal struggle for autonomy. "Lucy Stone (Only)" was Stone's trademark signature following her marriage. Her refusal to surrender her birth name was one example of her determination to retain her individuality in an era where a woman's right to a separate identity ended with marriage. Of equal importance is Kerr's discussion of Stone's relationship with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as well as her revisionist treatment of the schism which eventually divided Stone from Stanton and Anthony. Stone urged legislators not to ignore the need for women's suffrage as they rushed to enfranchise black males. Stanton and Anthony dwelt only on the need for women's suffrage, at the expense of black suffrage. Women's historians, the general reader, and historians of the family will appreciate the story of Stone's attempt to balance the conflicting demands of career and family.

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Download or read book The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison written by William Lloyd Garrison and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite provocation, Garrison was a proponent of nonresistance during this period, though he continued to advocate the emancipation of slaves. Set against a background of wide-ranging travels throughout the western U.S. and of family affairs back home in Boston, these letters make a distinctive contribution to antebellum life and thought.

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Download or read book Against the Tide written by Michael S. Kimmel and published by Beacon Press (MA). This book was released on 1992 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology containing some 100 documents, among them excerpts from public sources--speeches, books, essays, poems, songs, plays, and political pamphlets--and private ones, such as letters and diaries. Among the egalitarian men represented: Tom Paine, Horace Mann, John Dewey, Horace Greeley, Joe Hill, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eugene Debs, Walt Whitman, Gore Vidal, John Lennon, Jesse Jackson, Alan Alda. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Nineteenth century Literature Criticism written by Laurie Lanzen Harris and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from criticism of the works of novelists, poets, playwrights, short story writers and other creative writers who lived between 1800 and 1900, from the first published critical appraisals to current evaluations.