Before they could vote : American women's autobiographical writing, 1819-1919
The life narratives in this collection are by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition - some well known, some forgotten over generations - who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to adventurous new lives in a rapidly changing America. The engaging selections - from captivity narratives to letters, manifestos, criminal confessions, and childhood sketches - span a hundred years in which women increasingly asserted themselves publicly. Some rose to positions of prominence as writers, activists, and artists; some sought education or wrote to support themselves and their families; some transgressed social norms in search of new possibilities. Each woman's story is strikingly individual, yet the brief narratives in this anthology collectively chart bold new visions of women's agency
eBook, English, ©2006
University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis., ©2006
collective biographies
1 online resource (xii, 454 pages)
9780299220532, 9780299220501, 9781282270367, 9786612270369, 0299220532, 0299220508, 1282270362, 6612270365
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Introduction : Living in public / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
An authentic statement of the case and conduct of Rose Butler, who was tried, convicted, and executed for the crime of arson (1819) / Rose Butler
A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (as told to James E. Seaver) (1824) / Mary Jemison
The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee (1836) / Jarena Lee
Selections from Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839 (1863) / Fanny Kemble
Transcription of speech given at the Akron Women's Rights Convention, from the Anti-slavery Bugle (June 21, 1851) / Sojourner Truth
Selections from "Youth," from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852) / Margaret Fuller
Testimony, given in Canada (1855) / Harriet Tubman
A brief narrative of the life of Mrs. Adele M. Jewel (1869) / Adele M. Jewel
Selections from her journals (1874/78) / M. Carey Thomas
The Yakima affair, from Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims (1883) / Sarah Winnemucca
An old woman and her recollections (as recorded by Thomas Savage) (1877) / Eulalia Pérez
Beginning to work, from A New England girlhood (1889) / Lucy Larcom
"Looking back on girlhood" (1892) / Sarah Orne Jewett
The Club movement among colored women of America (1900) / Fannie Barrier Williams
Sketches from The Atlantic monthly / Zitkala-Ša
Nurslings of the sky, from The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Hunter Austin
Mary MacLane meets the vampire on the isle of treacherous delights (1910) / Mary MacLane
The promised land, from The promised land (1912) / Mary Antin
Lives in The Independent and the question of race / Anonymous
How I made my first big flight abroad : my flight across the English Channel (1912) / Harriet Quimby
Autobiographical essays / Sui Sin Far
Selections from Madeleine, an autobiography (1919) / "Madeleine."
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011