History of Woman Suffrage (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn, Ida Husted Harper, Elizabeth Cady
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The late eighteenth century to 1920
- Setting: The United States and Great Britain
- Principal Characters: Mary Wollstonecraft,, Harriet Martineau, Lucretia Mott, Sarah, Margaret Fuller, Carrie Chapman Catt, Francis Wright, Lydia Child
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Politics, History
- Subjects: Politics, Nineteenth century, Social issues, Law or legislation, Feminism, Suffrage or voting rights, Women’s movement, Women’s rights
- Locales: United States, Great Britain
Form and Content
History of Woman Suffrage, a chronological narrative with documents, comprises six volumes averaging one thousand pages apiece. The broad purpose of this massive work was to lend intellectual and moral support to feminists, and their male allies, in their struggles between 1881 and 1920 to extend the franchise to women. Universal white manhood suffrage had all but been accomplished by the mid-1840’s, an area in which Americans then led the world. In 1870, as a part of post-Civil War Reconstruction, ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment prohibited...
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