Nineteen Beautiful Years
Nineteen Beautiful Years

Author: Frances E. Willard

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-10

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9781331092315

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Excerpt from Nineteen Beautiful Years: Or Sketches of a Girl's Life Dear Sir, - Will you do us the favor to prepare a fitting Introduction to "Nineteen Beautiful Years?" Your acquaintance with and personal friendship for both author and subject will make it, we have no doubt, a pleasing task; and by complying you will confer upon us and the public an obligation. Dear Sirs, - I take great delight in complying with your request: believing, as I do, that the little volume which you arc about to publish will be a most interesting and valuable contribution to the reading public. It will also be a task of love both for the living and the dead. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Let Something Good Be Said
Let Something Good Be Said

Author: Frances E. Willard

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2024-04-22

Total Pages: 235

ISBN-13: 0252056493

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The definitive collection of speeches and writings of one of America's most important social reformers Celebrated as the most famous woman in America at the time of her death in 1898, Frances E. Willard was a leading nineteenth-century American temperance and women's rights reformer and a powerful orator. President of Evanston College for Ladies (before it merged with Northwestern University) and then professor of rhetoric and aesthetics and the first dean of women at Northwestern, Willard is best known for leading the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), America's largest women's organization. The WCTU shaped both domestic and international opinion on major political, economic, and social reform issues, including temperance, women's rights, and the rising labor movement. In what Willard regarded as her most important and far-reaching reform, she championed a new ideal of a powerful, independent womanhood and encouraged women to become active agents of social change. Willard's reputation as a powerful reformer reached its height with her election as president of the National Council of Women in 1888. This definitive collection follows Willard's public reform career, providing primary documents as well as the historical context necessary to clearly demonstrate her skill as a speaker and writer who addressed audiences as diverse as political conventions, national women's organizations, teen girls, state legislators, church groups, and temperance advocates. Including Willard's representative speeches and published writings on everything from temperance and women's rights to the new labor movement and Christian socialism, Let Something Good Be Said is the first volume to collect the messages of one of America's most important social reformers who inspired a generation of women to activism.