| Title |
Before they could vote : American women's autobiographical writing, 1819-1919 / edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson. |
| OCLC |
ocn223393524 |
| ISBN |
9780299220532 (electronic bk.) |
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0299220532 (electronic bk.) |
| Publisher |
Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2006] |
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©2006 |
| Description |
xii, 454 pages ; 23 cm. |
| LC Subject heading/s |
Women -- United States -- Biography.
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Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
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Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Sources.
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Women's studies -- United States -- Biographical methods.
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Autobiography -- Women authors.
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Other
Subject heading/s |
Femmes -- États-Unis -- Biographies.
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Femmes -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 19e siècle -- Sources.
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Femmes -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Sources.
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Études sur les femmes -- États-Unis -- Méthode biographique.
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Écrits de femmes autobiographiques.
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Other
Genre heading/s |
Electronic books.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 447-454). |
| Contents |
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-a -- 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". |
| Reproduction note |
Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. |
| Restrictions |
Single user license access. |
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