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Title:
Before they could vote : American women's autobiographical writing, 1819-1919 / edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson.
Publisher:
University of Wisconsin Press,
Copyright Date:
c2006
Description:
xii, 454 p. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Women--United States.--Biography.
Women--United States--History--19th century.--Sources.
Women--United States--History--20th century.--Sources.
Women's studies--United States--Biographical methods.
Autobiography--Women authors.
Other Authors:
Smith, Sidonie.
Watson, Julia, 1945-
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-454).
Contents:
Introduction : Living in public -- An authentic statement of the case and conduct of Rose Butler, who was tried, convicted, and executed for the crime of arson (1819) -- A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (as told to James E. Seaver) (1824) -- The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee (1836) -- Selections from Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839 (1863) -- Transcription of speech given at the Akron Women's Rights Convention, from the Anti-slavery Bugle (June 21, 1851) -- Selections from "Youth," from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852) -- Testimony, given in Canada (1855) -- A brief narrative of the life of Mrs. Adele M. Jewel (1869) -- Selections from her journals (1874/78) -- The Yakima affair, from Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims (1883) -- An old woman and her recollections (as recorded by Thomas Savage) (1877) -- Beginning to work, from A New England girlhood (1889) -- "Looking back on girlhood" (1892) -- The Club movement among colored women of America (1900) -- Sketches from The Atlantic monthly -- Nurslings of the sky, from The land of little rain (1903) -- Mary MacLane meets the vampire on the isle of treacherous delights (1910) -- The promised land, from The promised land (1912) -- Lives in The Independent and the question of race -- How I made my first big flight abroad : my flight across the English Channel (1912) -- Autobiographical essays -- Selections from Madeleine, an autobiography (1919)
Series:
Wisconsin studies in autobiography
ISBN:
9780299220549
9780299220501
9780299220549 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0299220540 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780299220501 (cloth : alk. paper)
0299220508 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)64486701
LCCN:
2006006984
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)
PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)
LTAX046 -- Indian Hills Community College Library - Centerville (Centerville)
UQAX771 -- Des Moines Area Community College Library - Ankeny (Des Moines)
UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

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