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1 online resource (409 pages) |
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Covere -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Sources -- Introduction: "Do Everything" -- PART I: DREAMS, 1839-1879 -- 1. "A Romping Girl" -- 2. "What a Queer Girl Frank Willard Is!" -- 3. "I Shall Be of Use to the World" -- 4. "Tell Every Body to Be Good" -- 5. "Moral Horticulture" -- 6. "Wanderer on the Face of the Earth" -- 7. "Home Protection" -- 8. "How to Win" -- PART II: POWER, 1880-1889 -- 9. "Agitate, Educate, Organize" -- 10. "Such Chivalry toward Women" -- 11. "Gospel Politics." |
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12. "White Shield Women" -- 13. "New Testament Ethics" -- 14. "This Is My Busy Day" -- 15. "I Should Have Loved ... to Be a Gospel Preacher" -- 16. "Dawn of Woman's Day" -- 17. "Gospel Socialism" -- PART III: VISIONS, 1890-1898 -- 18. "Our House Beautiful" -- 19. "Dearest Cossie" -- 20. "Queen Frances" -- 21. "My Cares Are Too Heavy" -- 22. "You Know ... of the Difficulty in Which I Have Been Placed by This Unjust Controversy" -- 23. "What Ails Miss Willard?" -- 24. "How Beautiful It Is to Be with God" -- Conclusion: "Had Vision ... in Which a Woman Becomes President of the United States." |
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Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Frances Willard (1839-1898) was one of the most famous American women of the late nineteenth century. As president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Willard built the largest women's rights organization in the world, campaigning for prohibition, women's suffrage, economic justice, and for women's broader political participation. As the first new biography of Willard published in over thirty-five years, this book provides readers a fascinating look into one of the most important women's rights leaders of her era. The book also closely examines Willard's religious faith--which ga |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898.
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Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898 fast |
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
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Woman's Christian Temperance Union fast |
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Social reformers -- United States -- Biography
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Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography
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Women -- Suffrage -- United States
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Social reformers
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Women social reformers
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Women -- Suffrage
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United States
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Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780190914080 |
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0190914084 |
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9780190914097 |
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0190914092 |
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