Table of Contents

Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: "The full, reliant, audacious way in which they go about"
1. Childhood: "He sings to the wide world, she to her nest"
2. London: "Hard to find a more interesting family"
3. Vassar: "Fascinating-but a trifle dangerous"
4. Strike: "Our cause is your cause"
5. Villager: "Simple but magical words new and free"
6. Lawyer: "To discharge my own debt to society"
7. Spectacle: "High priestess of woman suffrage"
8. Riot: "Every inch the herald of a great movement"
9. Love: "The most completely vital force in the world"
10. Marriage: "Here's to our work-yours and mine"
11.Crusader: "I must have a value somewhere"
12. Italy: "The spirit of war hangs heavy"
13. Pacifist: "I have worked well"
14. Execution: "You are your brother's keeper"
15. Campaign: "Women will stand by women"
16. Martyr: "Like depriving the desert of some oasis"
17. Icon: "How long must women wait for liberty?"
Epilogue: "Take up the song"
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

2005 AAUP Public and Secondary School Library Selection

About the Author

Linda J. Lumsden is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Arizona. She is author of Black, White and Red All Over: A Cultural History of the Radical Press in its Heyday, 1900-1917. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Malaysia in 2012-2013.

Reviews

"Lumsden wrote in a heroic style that implicitly challenges scholars experienced in U.S. women's history to take on this important icon to provide a more critical analysis of the context and impact of Milholland's activism and strategies on behalf the fight for women's rights."—H-Net