Before they could vote
Subtitle: American women's autobiographical writing, 1819-1919
By: edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson.
Contributors: Smith, Sidonie.; Watson, Julia, 1945-
Series: Wisconsin studies in autobiography
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Madison, Wis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9780299220501; 9780299220549
Subjects: 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; Autobiography -- Women authors
Genres: Biography.; Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-454).
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Living in public / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson; title: 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; title: A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (as told to James E. Seaver) (1824) / Mary Jemison; title: The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee (1836) / Jarena Lee; title: Selections from Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839 (1863) / Fanny Kemble; title: Transcription of speech given at the Akron Women's Rights Convention, from the Anti-slavery Bugle (June 21, 1851) / Sojourner Truth; title: Selections from "Youth," from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852) / Margaret Fuller; title: Testimony, given in Canada (1855) / Harriet Tubman; title: A brief narrative of the life of Mrs. Adele M. Jewel (1869) / Adele M. Jewel; title: Selections from her journals (1874/78) / M. Carey Thomas; title: The Yakima affair, from Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims (1883) / Sarah Winnemucca; title: An old woman and her recollections (as recorded by Thomas Savage) (1877) / Eulalia Pérez; title: Beginning to work, from A New England girlhood (1889) / Lucy Larcom; title: "Looking back on girlhood" (1892) / Sarah Orne Jewett; title: The Club movement among colored women of America (1900) / Fannie Barrier Williams; title: Sketches from The Atlantic monthly / Zitkala-Ša; title: Nurslings of the sky, from The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Hunter Austin; title: Mary MacLane meets the vampire on the isle of treacherous delights (1910) / Mary MacLane; title: The promised land, from The promised land (1912) / Mary Antin; title: Lives in The Independent and the question of race / Anonymous; title: How I made my first big flight abroad : my flight across the English Channel (1912) / Harriet Quimby; title: Autobiographical essays / Sui Sin Far; title: Selections from Madeleine, an autobiography (1919) / "Madeleine".