Hannah Thurston
Subtitle: a story of American life
By: by Bayard Taylor
Series: Works of Bayard Taylor
Publisher: G.P. Putnam
Published: 1863
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
Subjects: Quakers -- Fiction; Women's rights -- United States -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: "Hannah Thurston ... the daughter of Quaker parents, has herself been brought up a Quaker, but has strayed beyond the limits prescribed by George Fox and Robert Barclay, and can hardly be said to be a Quaker at all. She has made humanity her God, and philanthropy her worship. She has devoted herself body and soul to the assertion of woman's rights, and insists that woman has a right to be treated as a man, to enter public life, or to enter any public career, as a man, or to vote or be voted for as a man. She is, or wishes to be, a man-woman, and to force all men to recognize and respect her manly claims..."--Brownson's Quarterly Review, July, 1864