Let Something Good Be Said
Subtitle: Speeches and Writings of Frances E. Willard
Contributors: Carolyn De Swarte Gifford (Editor); Amy R. Slagell (Editor)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: July 27, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780252032073
Subjects: Biography: general; Women's studies; Social Science; Gender Studies; Sociology; USA; United States - 19th Century; Women; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Women's Studies; 19th century; Alcoholism; History; Temperance; United States; Woman's Temperance Crusade, 1873-1874
Description: "Celebrated as the most famous woman in America at the time of her death in 1898,Frances E. Willard was a leading nineteenth-century American temperance and women's rights reformer and a powerful orator. President of Evanston College for Ladies (before it merged with Northwestern University) and then professor of rhetoric and aesthetics and the first dean of women at Northwestern, Willard is best known for leading the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), America's largest women's organization." "This definitive collection follows Willard's public reform career, providing primary documents as well as the historical context necessary to clearly demonstrate her skill as a speaker and writer who addressed audiences as diverse as political conventions, national women's organizations, teen girls, state legislators, church groups, and temperance advocates. Including Willard's representative speeches and published writings on everything from temperance and women's rights to the new labor movement and Christian socialism, Let Something Good Be Said is the first volume to collect the messages of one of America's most important social reformers who inspired a generation of women to activism."--BOOK JACKET.