Writing out my heart : selections from the journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96

Author(s)

• Willard, Frances Elizabeth
• Gifford, Carolyn De Swarte

Bibliographic Information

Writing out my heart : selections from the journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96

edited by Carolyn De Swarte Gifford

（Women in American history）

University of Illinois Press, c1995

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [435]-444) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Frances E. Willard's powerful leadership of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) made her one of the most commanding figures in the reform movements of the nineteenth century. World renowned and a force to be reckoned with, Willard grappled publicly and private with difficult issues, including temperance, slavery, women's rights, and her own sexuality. These selections from her forty-nine-volume journal reveal the private and confidential side of Willard for the first time. She comes to life in these pages--a person of character, passion, and self-determination who came to represent the woman of the dawning era. Supplemented by an in-depth introduction and generous annotations, Writing Out My Heart sheds new light on an extraordinary individual and the lives of women in nineteenth-century America.

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Details

• NCID: BA27792515
• ISBN:
  • 0252021398
• LCCN: 94043878
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Urbana
• Pages/Volumes: xxvii, 474 p., [18] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HV5232.W6
  • DC20 : 322.4/4/092
  • DC20 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898 -- Diaries
  • LCSH : Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography
  • LCSH : Woman's Christian Temperance Union
  • LCSH : Women -- Suffrage -- United States
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA03813020