Indirect Influence.
Obenchain, Lida Calvert (Eliza Calvert Hall). Leaflet: "Indirect Influence.” New York City: National American Woman Suffrage Association, [c. 1915].
Leaflet: 6-3/8 x 7"; printed on off-white stock (both sides); some rumpling and darkening; about very good.
Reprinted from The Woman’s Journal. Eliza Calvert Obenchain (1856-1935), writer and suffragist, published essays, stories, and poetry under her pen name Eliza Calvert Hall. Her 1907 short story collection, Aunt Jane Of Kentucky, employs the gentle folk wisdom of quilt maker Aunt Jane to describe the church meetings, quilting bees, courtship rituals and other hallmarks of rural life in the 19th century. The character of Sally Ann lends a less benign view as she notes the male domination to which women are subjected. Eliza Obenchain also served as the president of the Kentucky Equal Rights Association and as a contributing editor of The Woman’s Journal for which she wrote articles. Here she attacks a staple anti-suffrage argument: that men represent women at the polls: "The franchise is not given a man in order that he may express the political views of his wife, his sister or his maiden aunt. It is conferred on him that he may express his own views…" (Franklin, p. 174., Woman’s Who’s Who In America 1914-1915, p. 695.)
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