Glimpses of Fifty Years: the Autobiography of an American Woman

Willard, Frances E.

Source Book

Occupations for Women

Politics & Social Sciences

Women's Studies

Legare Street Press

Woman And Temperance

History

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BCR (Bibliographical Center for Research)

Nineteen Beautiful Years: Or, Sketches of a Girl's Life.

Whittier., John Greenleaf

BiblioLife

"Woman, like man, should be freely permitted to do whatever she can do well." So said Frances E. Willard, who lived her life in the firm belief of this principle and who was instrumental in the passage of two amendments to the U.S. Constitution. A passionate advocate for women's rights, prohibition, and underprivileged people, she was devoted to making federal aid to education, free school lunches, unions, the eight-hour work day, work relief for the poor, municipal sanitation and boards of health, national transportation, anti-rape laws, and protections against child abuse a reality. In Willard's own words she describes her life as an educator, temperance reformer, and suffragist. She was an educator and later president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. She traveled extensively and even climbed the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Her sexual orientation is still debated today but she states in this volume: "The loves of women for each other grow more numerous each day and I have pondered much why these things were. That so little should be said about them surprises me, for they are everywhere... In these days when any capable and careful woman can honorably earn her own support, there is no village that has not its examples of 'two hearts in counsel,' both of which are feminine." She had many passionate attachments to other women and she discusses this in her book. Willard was the first woman whose statue was included in the Statuary Hall of the United States Capitol building.

Glimpses of Fifty Years (Abridged, Annotated)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Independently published

Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman (1864–1922), also known as Nellie Bly, was an American industrialist, journalist, charity worker, and inventor famous for her 72-day trip around the world in the footsteps of the fictional Phileas Fogg. She is also remembered for her exposé working undercover in a mental institute, which led to a new style of investigative journalism. In her 1888 travelogue, Seaman recounts her time spent travelling around Mexico, offering insights into all aspects of Mexican life from manners and methods of courtship to politics, history, geography, and beyond. Contents include: “Adieu to the United States”, “El Paso Del Norte”, “Along the Route”, “The City of Mexico”, “In the Streets of Mexico”, “How Sunday is Celebrated”, “A Horseback Ride Over Historic Grounds”, “A Mexican Bull-Fight”, “The Museum and its Curiosities”, etc. Read & Co. Travel is republishing this classic travelogue now in a new edition complete with an introductory biography by Frances E. Willard and Mary A. Livermore.

Six Months in Mexico: And Other Investigative Journalism Articles

Bly, Nellie

Livermore, Mary A.

Read & Co. Travel

Published originally in 1895, this classic by Frances Willard, the founder of the WCTU and well-known suffragette, gives insight into both the profound impact of the bicycle at the turn of the century and the new freedom it gave to women in America.

Wheel Within a Wheel (Applewood Books)

Americas

Applewood Books

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