[PDF] Frances Willard Her Life And Work eBook

Author : Ray Strachey
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 2013-09
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ISBN : 9781230458625

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... at nineteen. When I go home I must take fate in hand.... "My own timidity is so great that I think I shrink from what I believe my true occupation. "To be great, to be powerful, to have a nation hanging on one's will--dreams dim and momentary of such a destiny come to me.... "Then to be good--that one's single will might be the good angel of millions, that is the supreme dream of my intellect...." At last it was all settled: on her thirtieth birthday she writes: --"If I know my own heart (as good people say in class meetings) I was never braver for the future nor half so well prepared in resolution and in intellect to do some service to my fellow-women. "I can do so much more when I go home. I shall have a hold on life, and a fitness for it so much more assured. Perhaps--who knows?--there may be noble, wide-reaching work for me in the steady, mature years that stretch before me, the years of intelligent labor for which we are so long in getting ready--some of us, at least." But all this while she was not neglecting Paris and its sights: --"I have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. I thank Heaven that I know at least ray ignorance, and maintain an intent and teachable attitude." "Jan. 10. 1869.--We are much diverted by the velocipedes so common in the Paris streets. A youth followed our omnibus a long distance, looking like a crab running on its hind legs, an object outrageous to the eyes, but getting over the ground in a surprising r manner, and managing his curious machine with great skill and as much grace as could be in what is absolutely graceless in itself." Some of the other things to be seen in the Paris streets, however, she did not find so diverting, and after the...

Author : Ruth Bordin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1469617498

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Frances Willard (1839-98), national president of the WCTU, headed the first mass organization of American women, and through the work of this group, women were able to move into public life by 1900. Willard inspired this process by her skillful leadership, her broad social vision, and her traditional womanly virtues. Although a political maverick, she won the support of the white middle class because she did not appear to challenge society's accepted ideals.

Author : Ray 1887-1940 Strachey
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,60 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781362610601

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Author : Frances Elizabeth Willard
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Women
ISBN : 9780252021398

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The journal of Frances E. Willard nineteenth-century America's most renowned and influential Woman had been hidden away in a cupboard at the National WCTU headquarters, and its importance eluded Willard's biographers. Writing Out My Heart publishes for the first time substantial portions of the forty-nine volumes rediscovered in 1982. They open a window on the remarkable inner life of this great public figure and cast her in a new light. No other female political leader of the period left a private record like this. Best known for her powerful leadership of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), at that time the nation's largest organized body of women, Willard was a world-class reform leader and feminist. How she achieved this stature has been documented. This compelling journal reveals why. Written during her teens, twenties, and fifties, the journal documents the creation of Frances Willard's self. At the same time, it often reads like a good novel. It stands as one of the most explicit and painful records in the nineteenth century of one woman's coming to terms with her love for women in a heterosexual world. Other sections reveal what impelled Willard to reform the nature and depth of the religious dimension of her life a dimension not yet adequately explored by any biographer. Here we see her growing commitment to the "cause of woman." The volumes written in her late middle age give insight into the years when, world famous, she was part of the transatlantic network of reform, battling ill health, dealing with controversy in the WCTU, and grieving for her mother, a lifelong figure of emotional support. This finale concludes one of the most fascinating of the journal's themes: the nineteenth-century confrontation with sickness and death. Drawn from one of the richest sources in documentary history, knowledgeably introduced and annotated, Writing Out My Heart is a biographical goldmine, rich in the themes and institutions central to women's lives in nineteenth-century America.