A Strong-Minded Woman: The Life of Mary Livermore
Autor Wendy Hamand Veneten Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 oct 2005
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 remarkable story and explores how and why she became so renowned in her day. Born and raised in Boston, Livermore left home at age eighteen to become the private schoolteacher to a wealthy tobacco planter's children in Virginia, an experience that afforded her an intimate look at slave-based society in the 1840s. Returning to New England, she married and lived a conventional life as the wife of a minister and mother of three daughters. With the coming of the Civil War, however, Livermore's life changed dramatically when she became active with the United States Sanitary Commission, an organization that would propel her into the public limelight and cause her to challenge society's traditional view of the role of women.
After the war Livermore became deeply involved in the woman's rights movement, serving as editor of the newspaper Woman's Journal and later as president of three major suffrage organizations—the American, New England, and Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Associations. She was also founder and president of the Massachusetts Women's Christian Temperance Union, and became active in the Society of Christian Socialists in Boston. Her frequent speaking appearances on behalf of these causes eventually earned her the nickname "Queen of the Platform." Although she may not have been as radical as some other early feminists, Livermore's ideas resonated with thousands of middle-class women whose experiences paralleled her own. For that reason alone, Venet shows, her life and legacy are worthy of our attention.
In this book, Wendy Hamand Venet reconstructs Mary Livermore's remarkable story and explores how and why she became so renowned in her day. Born and raised in Boston, Livermore left home at age eighteen to become the private schoolteacher to a wealthy tobacco planter's children in Virginia, an experience that afforded her an intimate look at slave-based society in the 1840s. Returning to New England, she married and lived a conventional life as the wife of a minister and mother of three daughters. With the coming of the Civil War, however, Livermore's life changed dramatically when she became active with the United States Sanitary Commission, an organization that would propel her into the public limelight and cause her to challenge society's traditional view of the role of women.
After the war Livermore became deeply involved in the woman's rights movement, serving as editor of the newspaper Woman's Journal and later as president of three major suffrage organizations—the American, New England, and Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Associations. She was also founder and president of the Massachusetts Women's Christian Temperance Union, and became active in the Society of Christian Socialists in Boston. Her frequent speaking appearances on behalf of these causes eventually earned her the nickname "Queen of the Platform." Although she may not have been as radical as some other early feminists, Livermore's ideas resonated with thousands of middle-class women whose experiences paralleled her own. For that reason alone, Venet shows, her life and legacy are worthy of our attention.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781558495135
ISBN-10: 1558495134
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 164 x 233 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Massachusetts Press
Colecția University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN-10: 1558495134
Pagini: 236
Dimensiuni: 164 x 233 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Massachusetts Press
Colecția University of Massachusetts Press
Recenzii
"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 of Livermore's public life, and she is equally effective in rendering her subject's private life. Only excellent biographies do this well, and this book meets that standard."—James Brewer Stewart, author of
Wendell Phillips: Liberty's Hero
"The author's latest book marks the first full-length study of Livermore's life, a fact due in part to the difficulty of the task. . . . Venet nevertheless succeeds in crafting a remarkable piece of research by drawing on Livermore's two autobiographies and her numerous articles and speeches. Anyone with an interest in American history or women's history will delight in the fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the incipient U.S. feminist movement and one of its brightest stars. . . . More than just a figurehead for a cause, Venet's Livermore emerges as a living, breathing, woman who both succumbs to and surpasses the times in which she lived."—ForeWord Magazine
"Venet was able to effectively use Livermore's published memoir, stories, letters and editorials to piece together the story of her life. The result is an engagingly written contribution to the history of the struggle for woman's rights."—The Journal of American History
"Wendy Hamand Venet has made a significant contribution by rescuing this forgotten woman in this well-written biography."—The Historian
Wendell Phillips: Liberty's Hero
"The author's latest book marks the first full-length study of Livermore's life, a fact due in part to the difficulty of the task. . . . Venet nevertheless succeeds in crafting a remarkable piece of research by drawing on Livermore's two autobiographies and her numerous articles and speeches. Anyone with an interest in American history or women's history will delight in the fascinating behind-the-scenes look at the incipient U.S. feminist movement and one of its brightest stars. . . . More than just a figurehead for a cause, Venet's Livermore emerges as a living, breathing, woman who both succumbs to and surpasses the times in which she lived."—ForeWord Magazine
"Venet was able to effectively use Livermore's published memoir, stories, letters and editorials to piece together the story of her life. The result is an engagingly written contribution to the history of the struggle for woman's rights."—The Journal of American History
"Wendy Hamand Venet has made a significant contribution by rescuing this forgotten woman in this well-written biography."—The Historian
Notă biografică
Wendy Hamand Venet is associate professor of history at Georgia State University in Atlanta. She is the author of Neither Ballots nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War and the coeditor of Midwestern Women: Work, Community, and Leadership at the Crossroads.