Not for Ourselves Alone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Not for Ourselves Alone write by Geoffrey C. Ward. This book was released on 1999. Not for Ourselves Alone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were two heroic women who vastly bettered the lives of a majority of American citizens. For more than fifty years they led the public battle to secure for women the most basic civil rights and helped establish a movement that would revolutionize American society. Yet despite the importance of their work and they impact they made on our history, a century and a half later, they have been almost forgotten. Stanton and Anthony were close friends, partners, and allies, but judging from their backgrounds they would seem an unlikely pair. Stanton was born into the prominent Livingston clan in New York, grew up wealthy, educated, and sociable, married and had a large family of her own. Anthony, raised in a devout Quaker environment, worked to support herself her whole life, elected to remain single, and devoted herself to progressive causes, initially Temperance, then Abolition. They were nearly total opposites in their personalities and attributes, yet complemented each other's strengths perfectly. Stanton was a gifted writer and radical thinker, full of fervor and radical ideas but pinned down by her reponsibilities as wife and mother, while Anthony, a tireless and single-minded tactician, was eager for action, undaunted by the terrible difficulties she faced. As Stanton put it, "I forged the thunderbolts, she fired them." The relationship between these two extraordinary women and its effect on the development of the suffrage movement are richly depicted by Ward and Burns, and in the accompanying essays by Ellen Carol Dubois, Ann D. Gordon, and Martha Saxton. We also see Stanton and Anthony's interactions with major figures of the time, from Frederick Douglass and John Brown to Lucretia Mott and Victoria Woodhull. Enhanced by a wonderful array of black-and-white and color illustrations, Not For Ourselves Alone is a vivid and inspiring portrait of two of the most fascinating, and important, characters in American history.
Solitude of Self
Solitude of Self - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Solitude of Self write by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This book was released on 2001-09. Solitude of Self available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's inspiring and timeless speech. A perfect gift for anyone who cherishes dignity, equality, and solitude.
Ourselves Alone
Ourselves Alone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ourselves Alone write by Janet A. Nolan. This book was released on 2014-07-11. Ourselves Alone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In early April of 1888, sixteen-year-old Mary Ann Donovan stood alone on the quays of Queenstown in county Cork waiting to board a ship for Boston in far-off America. She was but one of almost 700,000 young, usually unmarried women, traveling alone, who left their homes in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a move unprecedented in the annals of European emigration. Using a wide variety of sources -- many of which appear here for the first time -- including personal reminiscences, interviews, oral histories, letter, and autobiographies as well as data from Irish and American census and emigration repots, Janet Nolan makes a sustained analysis of this migration of a generation of young women that puts a new light on Irish social and economic history. By the late nineteenth century changes in Irish life combined to make many young women unneeded in their households and communities; rather than accept a marginal existence, they elected to seek a better life in a new world, often with the encouragement and help of a female relative who had already emigrated. Mary Ann Donovan's journey was representative of thousands of journeys made by Irish women who could truly claim that they had seized control over their lives, by themselves, alone. This book tells their story.
The Woman's Bible
The Woman's Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Woman's Bible write by Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This book was released on 1993. The Woman's Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Every once in a while as we turn the pages of [this] impressive book, there is the temptation to sigh and shout an enthusiastic 'Amen!'" -- Oakland Press
Failure Is Impossible
Failure Is Impossible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Failure Is Impossible write by Lynn Sherr. This book was released on 2010-09-29. Failure Is Impossible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Susan B. Anthony didn’t live long enough to see women get the vote, but her tireless dedication shines through on every page.”—The Washington Post Book World Failure Is Impossible brings together—for the first time—a wide-ranging, spirited collection of Susan B. Anthony’s speeches, letters, and quotes, linked by contemporary reports and Lynn Sherr’s insightful biographical commentary. By allowing the legendary suffragist to speak for herself, Sherr brushes the dust off of the Susan B. Anthony icon, introducing a new generation to the brave, brilliant, funny, and, most of all, prescient woman she really was. “Lynn Sherr has done us all a great service by bringing to spectacular light the too long neglected story of one of our greatest patriots—a genuine hero who helped change for the better the lives of a majority of American citizens.”—Ken Burns
