My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light to Guide Women to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, But Which May Be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, without Injury to Themselves or the BookHolley, Marietta
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My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light to Guide Women to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, But Which May Be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, without Injury to Themselves or the Book
Holley, Marietta
Feminism -- Fiction; United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Women -- Suffrage -- United States -- Fiction; Women's rights -- Fiction
34 NO TIME TO VOTE 226
35 DREADFUL SHORT OF TIME 227
36 NO TIME TO STUDY LAWS 228
37 A WOMAN’S RIGHTS (FULL PAGE) 234
38 PRIMARY MEETINGS AND RESULTS (FULL PAGE) 241
39 A VICTORY (TAIL PIECE) 256
40 VISIT TO JONESVILLE (FULL PAGE) 263
41 GONE (TAIL PIECE) 271
42 THE SMILIN’ STRANGER (FULL PAGE) 278
43 “LET US HAVE PEACE” (FULL PAGE) 284
44 ON THE STREET 305
45 HARD AT WORK (FULL PAGE) 317
46 BETSEY’S PRAYER 334
47 ON A LECTURIN’ TOWER (FULL PAGE) 339
48 HOW WOULD YOU LIKE IT? 342
49 FEMALE STATESMANSHIP 345
50 DON’T TAKE BARTER 350
51 DOLLY VARDEN 354
52 A HARROWIN’ SCENE 358
53 INTERVIEW WITH HORACE (FULL PAGE) 369
54 FILLIN’ WOMAN’S SPEAR UNDER DIFFICULTIES (FULL PAGE) 395
55 AT HOME 402
56 MR. BOBBET TELLS NEWS (FULL PAGE) 407
MARRIED TO JOSIAH ALLEN.
If anybody had told me when I was first born that I would marry to a
widower, I should have been mad at ’em. I lived up to this idee quite
a number of years, how many, is nobody’s business, that I will contend
for. I laughed at the idee of love in my blindness of eye. But the first
minute I sot my grey eye onto Josiah Allen I knew my fate. My heart was a
pray to feelin’s it had heretofore been a stranger to.
Sez I to myself “Is this love?” I couldn’t answer, I was too agitated.
Josiah told me afterwards that he felt jest exactly the same, only,
when his heart wildly put the question to him, “Is it love you feel for
Samantha Smith?” he havin’ experience in the same, answered, “Yes, it is
love.”
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