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The Beautiful Life of Frances E. Willard
Biography of Frances E. Willard.
Do Everything
Frances Willard (1839-1898) was one of the most famous American women of the late nineteenth century. As president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Willard built the largest women's rights organization in the world, campaigning for prohibition, women's suffrage, economic justice, and for women's broader political participation. As the first new biography of Willard published in over thirty-five years, this book provides readers a fascinating look into one of the most important women's rights leaders of her era. The book also closely examines Willard's religious faith--which galvanized her activism--and assesses her importance for our time.
Frances Willard
This volume is a biography of Francis Willard (1839-98) who became president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1879 and remained active in that role throughout the 1890s. She devoted most of her life to building the women's organization that eventually secured the prohibition of alcoholic beverages. Using previously unavailable diaries, the author argues that the WCTU was the first mass organization of American women and that Willard's emphasis on womanliness and domesticity were not conservative, but rather paired with radical social ideas. Willard is characterized as having a philosophy that is a meld of womanliness, Christian socialism, equal rights, and concern for nurturance.
Frances E. Willard
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Writing Out My Heart
The journal of Frances E. Willard nineteenth-century America's most renowned and influential Woman had been hidden away in a cupboard at the National WCTU headquarters, and its importance eluded Willard's biographers. Writing Out My Heart publishes for the first time substantial portions of the forty-nine volumes rediscovered in 1982. They open a window on the remarkable inner life of this great public figure and cast her in a new light. No other female political leader of the period left a private record like this. Best known for her powerful leadership of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), at that time the nation's largest organized body of women, Willard was a world-class refo...
How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle
"Willard's name may not ring any bells now, but in the late 1800s she was famous for her pioneering social reforms. The introduction to this clever little book contains a lively synopsis of Willard's unusual life, from her tomboy childhood on the Wisconsin prairie to her years as the charismatic & influential head of the women's temperance movement. Willard admitted that her reforms 'tended more toward the liberation of women than toward the extinction of the saloon.' Originally published in 1895, Willard's pointed account of her learning to ride a bicycle at age 53 becomes a metaphor for life, encouraging women to learn to live more fully in the world. Willard praises the freedom bicycling brings, as well as the feeling of accomplishment. Rounded out with an essay on the history of women & bicycling, this delightful, uplifting, & unique bit of history is bound to attract both browsers & researchers." BOOKLIST. "daring little classic" WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD. "charming & disarming memoir" LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW. "touching, brave, & hilarious mini-memoir" MS. MAGAZINE.
Wheel Within a Wheel
Frances Willard (1839 –1898) was an American educator and women's rights activist.
Let Something Good Be Said
The definitive collection of speeches and writings of one of America's most important social reformers Celebrated as the most famous woman in America at the time of her death in 1898, Frances E. Willard was a leading nineteenth-century American temperance and women's rights reformer and a powerful orator. President of Evanston College for Ladies (before it merged with Northwestern University) and then professor of rhetoric and aesthetics and the first dean of women at Northwestern, Willard is best known for leading the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), America's largest women's organization. The WCTU shaped both domestic and international opinion on major political, economic, and so...
Glimpses of Fifty Years
Willard's autobiography is not only the story of an outstanding woman of the 19th century, it is the personal history of the W.C.T.U., the largest of the 19th century women's organizations.
