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A Strong-Minded Woman: The Life of Mary Livermore
Wendy Hamand Venet
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Description for A Strong-Minded Woman: The Life of Mary Livermore
Paperback. Presents a biography of Mary Livermore, an important nineteenth-century reformer. This book reconstructs Livermore's remarkable story, and explores how and why she became so renowned in her day. Num Pages: 344 pages, 17 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 576.
This is the first biography of an important nineteenth-century reformer. When Mary Livermore died in 1905, at age 84, a Boston newspaper praised her as ""America's foremost woman."" A leading figure in the struggle for woman's rights, as well as in the temperance movement, she was as widely recognized during her lifetime as Susan B. Anthony, and for a time the most popular and highly paid female orator in the country. Yet aside from Civil War historians familiar with her service as a wartime nurse, few today remember even her name. In this book, Wendy Hamand Venet reconstructs Mary Livermore's ... Read more
This is the first biography of an important nineteenth-century reformer. When Mary Livermore died in 1905, at age 84, a Boston newspaper praised her as ""America's foremost woman."" A leading figure in the struggle for woman's rights, as well as in the temperance movement, she was as widely recognized during her lifetime as Susan B. Anthony, and for a time the most popular and highly paid female orator in the country. Yet aside from Civil War historians familiar with her service as a wartime nurse, few today remember even her name. In this book, Wendy Hamand Venet reconstructs Mary Livermore's ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558495135
SKU
V9781558495135
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About Wendy Hamand Venet
WENDY HAMAND VENET is associate professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is the author of Nelther Ballots nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War and the coeditor of Midwestern Women: Work, Community, and Leadership at the Crossroads.
Reviews for A Strong-Minded Woman: The Life of Mary Livermore
Mary Livermore was a very important historical figure, and one about whom we have forgotten all too much. She played absolutely essential leadership roles in post - Civil War feminism and other reforms, developed a compelling personal ideology of 'female reform,' and became a powerful figure in genteel popular culture. Wendy Hamand Venet speaks enlighteningly to all these crucial aspects ... Read more