Let something good be said : speeches and writings of Frances E. Willard / edited by Carolyn De Swarte Gifford and Amy R. Slagell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898.

Contributor:

Gifford, Carolyn De Swarte.

Slagell, Amy R., 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Temperance--United States--History--19th century.

Temperance.

Alcoholism--United States.

Alcoholism.

History.

United States.

Woman's Temperance Crusade, 1873-1874.

Physical Description:

xlviii, 256 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2007]

Summary:

The definitive collection of speeches and writings of one of America's most important social reformers Thought to be the most famous woman in America at the time of her death, Frances E. Willard was best known for leading America's largest women's organization (the Woman's Christian Temperance Union), which shaped both domestic and international opinion on major political, economic, and social reform issues. Including Willard's representative speeches and pub-lished 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 that inspired a generation of women to activism.

Contents:

"Everybody's war" (1874)

Hints and helps in our temperance work (1875)

"Home protection [I]" (1876)

Address before the Illinois Senate (1879)

"Home protection [II]" (1879)

First presidential address (1880)

Three articles from the WCTU newspaper (1881-83)

"Personal liberty" (1882)

Woman and temperance (1883)

Address to the Committee on Resolutions of the Republican National Convention (1884)

"Social purity : the latest and greatest crusade" (1886)

How to win : a book for girls (1886)

"The greatest party" (1888)

"The dawn of woman's day" (1888)

Tenth presidential address (1889)

"Women and organization" (1891)

"The coming brotherhood" (1892)

Address at Exeter Hall (1893)

Fourteenth presidential address (1893)

Fifteenth presidential address (1894)

A wheel within a wheel : how I learned to ride the bicycle (1895)

Eighteenth presidential address (1897).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Works of Frances E. Willard": pages [231]-243.

ISBN:

9780252032073

0252032071

OCLC:

83977444