Path of Progress: One Man's Fight for Women's Rights - Hardcover

Burlingame, Flora Beach

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1947392425 ISBN 13: 9781947392427

Publisher: Flora E Burlingame, 2019

Synopsis

It’s the late 1800s, and John Ogilvie Stevenson, pastor of the Congregational Church in Waterloo, Iowa, believes women are equal to men intellectually, and superior to men morally and spiritually. During a sermon on temperance, wherein he advocates laws to shut down the saloons, he is struck with the irony that his audiences are composed mostly of women—that segment of the citizenry who cannot vote. Thus begins his campaign for women’s suffrage. A large portion of the public believes a woman’s place is in the home, that she has no business in politics, and probably isn’t smart enough to vote.

            Every two years the state legislature considers putting an amendment on the ballot for a public vote on the issue and time after time it doesn’t get that far. The Reverend John Stevenson never gives up. Through the triumphs and tragedies of his own personal life, he is determined to forge the path to progress.

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About the Author

Flora Beach Burlingame has had three careers: Motherhood (on-going), Paralegal (retired), and Journalist/writer (on-going). She has lived in various California locations and currently resides in beautiful, western Washington State. During career #3 she won awards for her short stories, published free-lance magazine articles, and served as contributing editor for the Mariposa Museum and History Center's quarterly newsletter. For a number of years, she wrote a column and features for The Fresno Bee, a major California newspaper, and during that time was commissioned by The Bee to write a hundred years of history on three California counties for a Centennial edition. Flora's interest in history came from her father, a high school history teacher, who she says, "always knew the history of anywhere we traveled." Stories of the past dominate Flora's writing. Though Path of Progress is a novel, it is based on actual sermons and writings of her great grandfather.

Edition details

• Publisher: Flora E Burlingame
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1947392425
• ISBN 13: 9781947392427
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 444