Woman Movement in America, The.
Squire, Belle. The Woman Movement in America. A short account of the struggle for equal rights. With portraits. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911.
8vo.; olive cloth, stamped in black.
First edition of this history of the American women’s suffrage movement; appropriately, with a portrait frontispiece of Susan B. Anthony and twelve portraits throughout of other leading feminist writers and activists. Included among them are Mary Wollstonecraft, Anne Hutchinson, Lucretia Mott, Fraces Wright, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Elizabeth Blackwell, Lucy Stone, Victoria Woodhull, and others.
Squire’s first six chapters derive from her work for the Chicago Sunday Tribune, and the tone and style of the remaining twenty chapters follow suit. She writes, according to her preface, for busy readers of all ages, in a format unusual for a history book: “Each chapter,” she writes,
commences with a dramatic incident, for I have endeavored to present history, not in the usual chronological order, but in a series of word pictures, sufficiently dramatic to arrest and hold the attention, leaving the reader with an array of pictorial impressions rather than a collection of facts. I have hoped, too, by this method, to interest boys and girls of the nation in this, perhaps the greatest of all movements the world has ever seen. If then by means of what I have here hastily and imperfectly written there will be a better understanding of the meaning of “Votes for Women” in the widest and most comprehensive sense, my mission will have been accomplished. (vi)
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