Story of My Life, The.
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Livermore, Mary. The Story of My Life or the Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years ... and
reminiscences of twenty-five years’ experiences on the lecture platform.... to which is added six of her
most popular lectures. Hartford: Worthington & Co., 1897.
8vo.; illustrated; hinges expertly repaired; red cloth, stamped in gilt.
First edition. “Sold Only to Subscribers.” A presentation copy, inscribed to Katharine C. Washburn, dated
November, 1897. We love girls for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. Goethe—
Mary A. Livermore.
Mary Ashton Livermore, 1820-1905, an American reformer, suffragist, and lecturer, founded and
edited The Agitator (1869-1872) and the Woman’s Journal. She served with Susan B. Anthony and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton on the executive committee of the newly founded National Woman’s Suffrage
Association in 1869 and as president of the Massachusetts Woman’s Christian Temperance Union for ten
years (1875-1885). An expanded version of My Story of the War, 1887, the present account reprints six
lectures, including her well-known piece on suffrage and women’s rights, “What Shall We Do With Our
Daughters?” The latter, delivered numerous times, advocated higher education, training in homemaking, a
substantial program of physical exercise, and dress reform—dispensing with corsets and other constricting
apparel. NAW II, pp. 410-41. Davis & Joyce, Personal Writings, 2894.
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