Research Catalog

Title

Before they could vote : American women's autobiographical writing, 1819-1919 / edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson.

Publication

Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Smith, Sidonie.
• Watson, Julia, 1945-

Description

xii, 454 p.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Wisconsin studies in autobiography

Subject

• Autobiography > Women authors
• Women > United States > Biography
• Women > United States > History > 19th century > Sources
• Women > United States > History > 20th century > Sources
• Women's studies > United States > Biographical methods

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 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-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".

ISBN

• 0299220508 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0299220540 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780299220501 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780299220549 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2006006984

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library