Title: Walt Whitman and 19th-century women reformers
First published: 1998
Description: Walt Whitman and 19th-Century Women Reformers documents Whitman's friendships with women during the 1850s, the decade of Whitman's most creative period. The book reveals startling connections between the first three editions of Leaves of Grass and the texts generated by the women he knew during this period, many of whom were radical activists in the women's rights movement.

Ceniza documents the progression of the National Women's Rights movement through the lives and writings of three of its leaders - Abby Hills Price, Paulina Wright Davis, and Ernestine L. Rose. By juxtaposing the texts written by these women with Leaves, Ceniza shows that Whitman used many of the same arguments and rhetorical gestures as his female activist friends.
Subjects: History, Friends and associates, Women social reformers, Radicalism in literature, Social change in literature, Political and social views, Women and literature, Women's rights in literature, Feminism, Women in literature, Whitman, walt, 1819-1892
Places: United States
People: Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
Time periods: 19th century
LC classification: PS3242.W6 C46 1998