The Story of Frances E. Willard
Author: Gertrude Stevens Leavitt
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 38
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Author: Gertrude Stevens Leavitt
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 38
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frances Elizabeth Willard
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 9780252021398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe journal of Frances E. Willard nineteenth-century America's most renowned and influential Woman had been hidden away in a cupboard at the National WCTU headquarters, and its importance eluded Willard's biographers. Writing Out My Heart publishes for the first time substantial portions of the forty-nine volumes rediscovered in 1982. They open a window on the remarkable inner life of this great public figure and cast her in a new light. No other female political leader of the period left a private record like this. Best known for her powerful leadership of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), at that time the nation's largest organized body of women, Willard was a world-class reform leader and feminist. How she achieved this stature has been documented. This compelling journal reveals why. Written during her teens, twenties, and fifties, the journal documents the creation of Frances Willard's self. At the same time, it often reads like a good novel. It stands as one of the most explicit and painful records in the nineteenth century of one woman's coming to terms with her love for women in a heterosexual world. Other sections reveal what impelled Willard to reform the nature and depth of the religious dimension of her life a dimension not yet adequately explored by any biographer. Here we see her growing commitment to the "cause of woman." The volumes written in her late middle age give insight into the years when, world famous, she was part of the transatlantic network of reform, battling ill health, dealing with controversy in the WCTU, and grieving for her mother, a lifelong figure of emotional support. This finale concludes one of the most fascinating of the journal's themes: the nineteenth-century confrontation with sickness and death. Drawn from one of the richest sources in documentary history, knowledgeably introduced and annotated, Writing Out My Heart is a biographical goldmine, rich in the themes and institutions central to women's lives in nineteenth-century America.
Author: Anna Adams Gordon
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Published: 1898
Total Pages: 462
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Author: Bernie Babcock
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frances Elizabeth Willard
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0252032071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive collection of speeches and writings of one of America's most important social reformers Thought to be the most famous woman in America at the time of her death, Frances E. Willard was best known for leading America's largest women's organization (the Woman's Christian Temperance Union), which shaped both domestic and international opinion on major political, economic, and social reform issues. Including Willard's representative speeches and pub-lished 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 that inspired a generation of women to activism.
Author: Bernie Babcock
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Published: 1919
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: GERTRUDE STEVENS. LEAVITT
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781033301661
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gertrude Stevens Leavitt
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Published: 1908
Total Pages: 31
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Published: 1912
Total Pages: 410
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frances Willard
Publisher: Ravenio Books
Published: 2014-02-09
Total Pages: 41
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrances Willard (1839 –1898) was an American educator and women's rights activist.