An Expert's Opinion.
[Crane, Caroline Bartlett.] An Expert’s Opinion. The Suffrage Question as Viewed by a Competent Michigan Woman. Michigan Women’s Christian Temperance Union Press Bureau: St. Louis, Michigan, [ca 1910.]
One 5 ¾ x 8 ¾ -inch leaf; recto only.
Leaflet printing views on suffrage by “competent Michigan woman” Caroline Bartlett Crane, “a distinguished expert on municipal housekeeping,” asked by the publication’s editor to “give in 500 words her reasons for believing women ought to vote.” Crane writes, in part:
I believe in Equal Suffrage because men and women are co-partners in the great business of living. The separate ‘spheres’ of men and women have become rather hard to differentiate, since men have annexed each and every occupation of woman as fast as they could make money out of it; and women, chiefly because of this fact, have entered so largely into business life. If there is a ‘woman’s sphere’ why have not men kept out of it?
Crane (1858-1935), was a minister and suffragist known for “applying the ‘womanly’ principles of housekeeping to the public sphere,” and was, in some circles, referred to as “America’s housekeeper” (Notable American Women). An active writer and lecturer, Crane commonly traveled to speak on rights issues, speaking frequently on issues regarding national agriculture standards, healthy policy, and housing reform.
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