Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and the battle for a new south / Melba Porter Hay ; foreword by Marjorie J. Spruill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hay, Melba Porter, 1949-

Series:

Topics in Kentucky history.

Topics in Kentucky history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell, 1872-1920.

Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell.

Women--United States--Biography.

Women.

Women's rights--United States--Biography.

Women's rights.

Women--Suffrage.

Women--United States--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kentucky native Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872--1920) was at the forefront of the suffrage movement at both the state and national levels. The great-granddaughter of Henry Clay and a descendant of several prominent Bluegrass families, Breckinridge inherited a sense of noblesse oblige that compelled her to speak for women's rights. However, it was her physical struggles and personal losses that transformed her from a privileged socialite into a selfless advocate for the disadvantaged. She devoted much of her life to the struggle for equal voting rights, but she also promoted the antitu

Contents:

"One great honored name," 1872-1889

"A thunder-bolt out of a clear sky," 1890-1896

"An unholy interest in reforming others," 1897-1900

"Our hope lies in the children," 1901-1904

"Whatever a woman can do

in the long run she will do," 1905-1907

"Educational advance and school suffrage for women go hand in hand," 1908-1911

"Among the most brilliant advocates of votes for women in this country," 1912-1913

"An able speaker, a brilliant woman," 1914-1915

"I cannot keep her from doing more than she ought to do," 1916-1918

Kentucky's "most distinguished woman citizen," 1919-1920

Epilogue: "She belonged to Kentucky."

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613233431

9780813139142

0813139147

9780813135236

0813135230

9781283233439

1283233436

9780813173269

0813173264

OCLC:

318456577