Library of the best American literature: Containing the lives of our authors in story form, their portraits, their homes, and their personal traits, how they worked and what they wrote; choice selections from eminent writers, embracing great American poets and novelists, foremost women in American letters, distinguished critics and essayists, our national humorists, noted journalists and magazine contributors, popular writers for young people, great orators and public lecturers
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Library of the best American literature: Containing the lives of our authors in story form, their portraits, their homes, and their personal traits, how they worked and what they wrote; choice selections from eminent writers, embracing great American poets and novelists, foremost women in American letters, distinguished critics and essayists, our national humorists, noted journalists and magazine contributors, popular writers for young people, great orators and public lecturers
American literature
HENRY W. GRADY.
⭘ Devoid of Sectional Animosities
⭘ The Union His Pride
⭘ Eloquent, Logical and Aggressive
⭘ His Principal Speeches
⭘ Birth, Parentage and Education
⭘ Marriage and Struggle for Existence
⭘ “A Friend in Need”
⭘ Success at Last
⭘ Premature Death
⭘ ‘The New South’
⭘ ‘Regard for the Negro Race’
⭘ ‘Appeal for Temperance’
JULIA WARD HOWE.
⭘ Her Home a Meeting Place for Great Men
⭘ Birth, Parentage and Education
⭘ Marriage and Tour Abroad
⭘ Her First Book
⭘ Interest in the Anti-Slavery Question
⭘ Her Famous “Battle Hymn”
⭘ Visit to England
⭘ A New Journey Abroad
⭘ ‘The Battle Hymn of the ♦Republic’
♦ ‘Rebublic’ replaced with ‘Republic’
⭘ ‘Our Country’
⭘ ‘The Unspeakable Pang’
MARY A. LIVERMORE.
⭘ Her Early Experience
⭘ Birth, Parentage and Education
⭘ Teacher of Latin and French
⭘ In the South
⭘ Marriage
⭘ An Active Temperance Worker
⭘ Her Literary Work
⭘ War Service
⭘ An Ardent Woman-Suffragist
⭘ Her Pen Never Idle
⭘ ‘Useful Women’
BELVA ANN LOCKWOOD.
⭘ One of the Greatest Benefactors of Her Sex
⭘ Birth, Education and Early Life
⭘ Professor at Lockport Academy
⭘ Admission to the Supreme Court of the U. S.
⭘ A Remarkable Nomination
⭘ Great Popularity
⭘ Several Times Delegate to International Congresses of Peace
⭘ Assistant Editor to the “Peacemaker”
⭘ ‘Address before the Committee of the House of Delegates,
Washington, in Support of Woman Suffrage’
SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
⭘ Early Life and Education
⭘ How She Became an Abolitionist, Woman-Suffragist and Temperance
Worker
⭘ Arrested, Tried and Fined for Voting
⭘ Speeches and Lectures
⭘ Celebration of Her Seventieth Birthday
⭘ ‘Woman’s Right to Suffrage’
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.
⭘ Forceful, Logical and Eloquent Orator
⭘ Primarily a Woman-Suffragist
⭘ Birth, Childhood and Education
⭘ How She Became a Woman’s Rights Believer
⭘ How She Became an Abolitionist
⭘ The First Woman’s Rights Convention
⭘ Her Addresses and Speeches
⭘ Her Literary Works
⭘ A Thoroughly Domestic Woman
⭘ ‘A Plea for Equal Rights’
⭘ ‘Address to the Legislature of New York’
FRANCES E. WILLARD.
⭘ Birth, Childhood and Early Life
⭘ Teacher and President of Evanston College
⭘ The Women’s “Crusade against Rum Shops”
⭘ Joining in the Crusade
⭘ The Result of Her Work
⭘ ‘Home Protection’
LYDIA MARIA CHILD.
⭘ Activity against the “Fugitive Slave Law”
⭘ Birth, Education and Early Life
⭘ Her First Book a Success
⭘ Marriage and Anti-Slavery Work
⭘ The First Anti-Slavery Book in America
⭘ ‘A Little Waif’
⭘ ‘To Whittier on His Seventieth Birthday’
⭘ ‘Politeness’
⭘ ‘Flowers’
⭘ ‘Unselfishness’
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