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Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott (Women in American History)

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University of Illinois Press, 2002

Details of life for a woman to whom we owe our voting ability
Lucretia Mott, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and many others worked hard to get the vote for women. But reading this carefully edited volume of her letters will give you another view of her life: it was very quotidian. Family issues were a great concern, and she was the clerk of the females in her Quaker congregation. She cared deeply about slavery as well as ...

A Woman's Wit and Whimsy: The 1833 Diary of Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy (The New England Women's Diaries Series)
Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy

Northeastern, 2003

Anna Cabot Lowell Quincy (1812-1899), the youngest daughter of Josiah Quincy-onetime U.S. Congressman, former Mayor of Boston, and President of Harvard University-was a discerning twenty-one-year-old woman of privilege when she kept a diary during the spring and summer of 1833. Although Anna was respectful in polite company regarding her limited status in a male-dominated society, her journal entries of the Quincy family's social activities ...

The Selected Letters of Florence Kelley, 1869-1931
Florence Kelley

University of Illinois Press, 2009

As head of the National Consumers' League from its founding in 1899 until her death in 1932, Florence Kelley led campaigns that reshaped the conditions under which goods were produced in the United States. She also worked to pass laws providing for an eight-hour workday, a minimum wage, the first federal health legislation for women and children, and abolition of child labor. An ally of W.E.B. DuBois, she was a founding member of the National ...

Strengthening Your Faith

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Beverly Wilson

Zondervan, 1998

Faith, Simple Faith
As the book states in the beginning, "If faith is supposed to be simple--or childlike...why do we struggle so to have it?". AMEN! Faith is a topic that seems easy to discuss but difficult to apply. This six week study takes the examples of six types of faithful women in the Bible and how their faith made a difference. Learn about "Extravagent Faith" through the Woman of Ill Repute; ...