Let Something Good be Said: The Speeches and Writings of Frances E. Willard - Hardcover

Willard, Frances E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252032071 ISBN 13: 9780252032073

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2007

Synopsis

The definitive collection of speeches and writings of one of America's most important social reformersThought to be the most famous woman in America at the time of her death, Frances E. Willard was best known for leading America's largest women's organization (the Woman's Christian Temperance Union), which shaped both domestic and international opinion on major political, economic, and social reform issues. Including Willard's representative speeches and pub-lished writings on everything from temperance and women's rights to the new labor movement and Christian socialism, \u0022Let Something Good Be Said\u0022 is the first volume to collect the messages that inspired a generation of women to activism.

About this title

Review:

"This collection is perfect, offering the best of Willard without overwhelming the reader. The documents chosen illustrate Willard's uncanny political sense and ability to turn a phrase, as well as her personal trajectory through the halls of temperance into the wide arena of national and international reforms." -- Mari Jo Buhle

" This collection is perfect, offering the best of Willard without over-whelming the reader. The documents chosen illustrate Willard's uncanny political sense and ability to turn a phrase, as well as her personal trajectory through the halls of temperance into the wide arena of national and inter-national reforms." --Mari Jo Buhle, William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor of American civilization and history, Brown University

"Gifford and Slagell apply their combined expertise in history, gender studies, and rhetoric to select, edit, annotate, and contextualize 22 excerpts from Frances Willard's speeches and publication, 1874-97. . . . Highly recommended."--"Choice"

"Gifford and Slagell have done an admirable job of choosing works that reflect the evolution and tenor of Willard's thought. . . . Those readers interested in a fine sampling of this important woman's discourse, a sample that illustrates the breadth and depth of her work, could do no better than Gifford and Slagell's anthology of Frances E. Willard's speeches and writings."--"Journal of ""Illinois"" History "

"This collection is perfect, offering the best of Willard without over-whelming the reader. The documents chosen illustrate Willard's uncanny political sense and ability to turn a phrase, as well as her personal trajectory through the halls of temperance into the wide arena of national and inter-national reforms." --Mari Jo Buhle, William R. Kenan, Jr. University Professor of American civilization and history, Brown University

"Gifford and Slagell have done an admirable job of choosing works that reflect the evolution and tenor of Willard's thought. . . . Those readers interested in a fine sampling of this important woman's discourse, a sample that illustrates the breadth and depth of her work, could do no better than Gifford and Slagell's anthology of Frances E. Willard's speeches and writings."--Journal of Illinois History

"Gifford and Slagell apply their combined expertise in history, gender studies, and rhetoric to select, edit, annotate, and contextualize 22 excerpts from Frances Willard's speeches and publication, 1874-97. . . . Highly recommended."--Choice

About the Author:

Amy R. Slagell is an associate professor and directs the speech communication program in the Department of English at Iowa State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0252032071
• ISBN 13: 9780252032073
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Gifford Carolyn De Sware, Slagell Amy R.