04960nam 22007214a 450 991081592990332120240418052631.01-282-27036-297866122703690-299-22053-2(CKB)1000000000485737(SSID)ssj0000109740(PQKBManifestationID)11142675(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000109740(PQKBWorkID)10059219(PQKB)11252981(MiAaPQ)EBC3444752(OCoLC)223393524(MdBmJHUP)muse12294(Au-PeEL)EBL3444752(CaPaEBR)ebr10221954(CaONFJC)MIL227036(EXLCZ)99100000000048573720060228d2006 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBefore they could vote American women's autobiographical writing, 1819-1919 /edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson1st ed.Madison, Wis. University of Wisconsin Pressc2006xii, 454 pWisconsin studies in autobiography0-299-22054-0 0-299-22050-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 447-454).Introduction : Living in public / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson -- 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 -- A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (as told to James E. Seaver) (1824) / Mary Jemison -- The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee (1836) / Jarena Lee -- Selections from Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839 (1863) / Fanny Kemble -- Transcription of speech given at the Akron Women's Rights Convention, from the Anti-slavery Bugle (June 21, 1851) / Sojourner Truth -- Selections from "Youth," from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852) / Margaret Fuller -- Testimony, given in Canada (1855) / Harriet Tubman -- A brief narrative of the life of Mrs. Adele M. Jewel (1869) / Adele M. Jewel -- Selections from her journals (1874/78) / M. Carey Thomas -- The Yakima affair, from Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims (1883) / Sarah Winnemucca -- An old woman and her recollections (as recorded by Thomas Savage) (1877) / Eulalia Pérez -- Beginning to work, from A New England girlhood (1889) / Lucy Larcom -- "Looking back on girlhood" (1892) / Sarah Orne Jewett -- The Club movement among colored women of America (1900) / Fannie Barrier Williams -- Sketches from The Atlantic monthly / Zitkala-Ša -- Nurslings of the sky, from The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Hunter Austin -- Mary MacLane meets the vampire on the isle of treacherous delights (1910) / Mary MacLane -- The promised land, from The promised land (1912) / Mary Antin -- Lives in The Independent and the question of race / Anonymous -- How I made my first big flight abroad : my flight across the English Channel (1912) / Harriet Quimby -- Autobiographical essays / Sui Sin Far -- Selections from Madeleine, an autobiography (1919) / "Madeleine."The life narratives in this collection are by ethnically diverse women of energy and ambition - some well known, some forgotten over generations - who confronted barriers of gender, class, race, and sexual difference as they pursued or adapted to adventurous new lives in a rapidly changing America. The engaging selections - from captivity narratives to letters, manifestos, criminal confessions, and childhood sketches - span a hundred years in which women increasingly asserted themselves publicly. Some rose to positions of prominence as writers, activists, and artists; some sought education or wrote to support themselves and their families; some transgressed social norms in search of new possibilities. Each woman's story is strikingly individual, yet the brief narratives in this anthology collectively chart bold new visions of women's agency.Wisconsin studies in autobiography.WomenUnited StatesBiographyWomenUnited StatesHistory19th centurySourcesWomenUnited StatesHistory20th centurySourcesWomen's studiesUnited StatesBiographical methodsAutobiographyWomen authorsAutobiographies.lcgftPrimary sources.WomenWomenHistoryWomenHistoryWomen's studiesBiographical methods.AutobiographyWomen authors.305.4092/273BSmith Sidonie289123Watson Julia1945-289124MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815929903321Before they could vote4083566UNINA