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If mention is made of woman it is of queens\nand intriguing beauties who ruled and schemed for power and riches, and\noften worked mischief and ruin by their wiles.\nThe story of woman's work in great migrations has been told only in lines\nand passages where it ought instead to fill volumes. Here and there\nincidents and anecdotes scattered through a thousand tomes give us glimpses\nof the wife, the mother, or the daughter as a heroine or as an angel of\nkindness and goodness, but most of her story is a blank which never will be\nfilled up. And yet it is precisely in her position as a pioneer and\ncolonizer that her influence is the most potent and her life story most\ninteresting.\nThe glory of a nation consists in its migrations and the colonies it plants\nas well as in its wars of conquest. The warrior who wins a battle deserves\na laurel no more rightfully than the pioneer who leads his race into the\nwilderness and builds there a new empire.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 6808 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Fowler, William Worthington \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Nov 1, 2004 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Fowler, William Worthington,1833-1881 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43215373566109,"sku":"gb-6808-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/6808.jpg?v=1671285158"},{"product_id":"the-women-who-came-in-the-mayflower-gb-7252","title":"The Women Who Came in the Mayflower","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Women Who Came in the Mayflower\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n      This little book is intended as a memorial to the women who came in The\r\n      Mayflower, and their comrades who came later in The Ann and The\r\n      Fortune, who maintained the high standards of home life in early\r\n      Plymouth Colony. There is no attempt to make a genealogical study of any\r\n      family. The effort is to reveal glimpses of the communal life during\r\n      1621-1623. This is supplemented by a few silhouettes of individual matrons\r\n      and maidens to whose influence we may trace increased resources in\r\n      domestic life and education.\r\n    \n\r\n      One must regret the lack of proof regarding many facts, about which are\r\n      conflicting statements, both of the general conditions and the individual\r\n      men and women. In some instances, both points of view have been given\r\n      here; at other times, the more probable surmises have been mentioned.\r\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 7252 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Marble, Annie Russell \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 1, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Marble, Annie Russell,1864-1936 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43215409184925,"sku":"gb-7252-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/7252.jpg?v=1671286974"},{"product_id":"woman-in-the-nineteenth-century-gb-8642","title":"Woman in the Nineteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWoman in the Nineteenth Century\r - and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\n      The following essay is a reproduction, modified and expanded, of an\r\n      article published in \"The Dial, Boston, July, 1843,\" under the title\r\n      of \"The Great Lawsuit.Man versus Men; Woman\r\n      versus Women.\"\r\n    \n\r\n      This article excited a good deal of sympathy, add still more\r\n      interest. 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My highest wish is that this\r\n      truth should be distinctly and rationally apprehended, and the\r\n      conditions of life and freedom recognized as the same for the\r\n      daughters and the sons of time; twin exponents of a divine thought.\r\n    \n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 8642 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Fuller, Margaret \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 1, 2005 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Fuller, Arthur B. 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That there are\npassages indicative of a comparatively recent origin, and calculated to\ncast a shade of doubt over the entire narrative, the Editor would be the\nlast to deny, notwithstanding its general accordance with historical\nverities and probabilities.  Its merit consists mainly in the fact that\nit presents a tolerably lifelike picture of the Past, and introduces us\nfamiliarly to the hearths and homes of New England in the seventeenth\ncentury.\nA full and accurate account of Secretary Rawson and his family is about\nto be published by his descendants, to which the reader is referred who\nwishes to know more of the personages who figure prominently in this\nJournal.\nI remember I did promise my kind Cousin Oliver (whom I pray God to have\nalways in his keeping), when I parted with him nigh unto three months\nago, at mine Uncle Grindall's, that, on coming to this new country,\nI would, for his sake and perusal, keep a little journal of whatsoever\ndid happen both unto myself and unto those with whom I might sojourn;\nas also, some account of the country and its marvels, and mine own\ncogitations thereon.  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She\r\n  soothes the sorrows of the aged, takes the hand of the orphan to\r\n  lead him in paths of safety, and in the tumult of war ministers\r\n  to the wounded and dying.\nAmidst her general activity, many questions arise as to what\r\n  further avenues of usefulness may properly open. How far may she\r\n  engage in business, and in what branches? what is her proper work\r\n  in the Church, and to what extent may she perform public\r\n  religious services? is she properly a citizen, and what\r\n  privileges or rights should she enjoy?are inquiries which\r\n  are considered and discussed. 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No one can really\r\nmeet that need but the educated Indian Christian women whom God is\r\npreparing in this day for service. They are the ones who are Lighted to\r\nLighten. They are the Hope of the future. Fifty years ago, after the\r\nCivil war, the light began in the organization of Woman's Missionary\r\nSocieties. Through all the years women have gone, never very many,\r\nsometimes not very strong, limited in various ways, but with one stern\r\ndetermination, at any cost \"to save some.\"\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 12062 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Van Doren, Alice B. 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The\r\n    moral strength of our cause is immeasurably increased by her\r\n    alliance, and the spectacle of a great democracy organizing\r\n    itself for complete unity in a world crisis is worth an\r\n    incalculable amount to us. Such a vision Miss Fraser has\r\n    brought to her wider public among the women of America in this\r\n    notable book. Of her personal influence let me quote again from\r\n    the Vassar students' newspaper:\n\"Miss Fraser, here's to you! We don't need to say that we\r\n    liked Miss Fraser and everything she had to tell us. The way we\r\n    followed her around, and packed every room in which she spoke,\r\n    out to the doors and sometimes up to the ceiling, is proof\r\n    enough of that. And even the\r\n    [pg 12] fact that it was Sunday could\r\n       not check our outburst of song in the Soap Palace as Miss\r\n       Fraser departed. 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Is there by chance a Roman who is ashamed to\r\ntake his wife to a dinner away from home?  Does it happen that the\r\nmistress of the house in any family does not enter the anterooms\r\nfrequented by strangers and show herself among them?  Not so in Greece:\r\nthere the woman accepts invitations only among families to which she is\r\nrelated, and she remains withdrawn in that inner part of the house\r\nwhich is called the gynaeceum, where only the nearest relatives are\r\nadmitted.\"\r\n\n\r\nThis passage, one of the most significant in all the little work of\r\nNepos, draws in a few, clear, telling strokes one of the most marked\r\ndistinctions between the Greco-Asiatic world and the Roman.  Among\r\nancient societies, the Roman was probably that in which, at least among\r\nthe better classes, woman enjoyed the greatest social liberty and the\r\ngreatest legal and economic autonomy.  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Und mit ihrem Bild zugleich wird\r\nein anderes auftauchen, das Karl Braters, des edlen\r\nVorkmpfers fr die deutsche Einheit, von dem Professor\r\nRobert Piloty in einer eben erschienenen Schrift\r\nsagt: Offenen und ehrlichen Kampf fr Staat, Recht\r\nund Freiheit hat er zeitlebens gefhrt, sein Andenken\r\nwird stets verbunden sein mit den Erinnerungen an\r\nBayerns schwerste Zeiten, in denen er mit energischem\r\nWillen und klarem Verstand auf der Seite der guten\r\nSache beharrte und kmpfte.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 23134 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Sapper, Agnes \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Oct 21, 2007 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: German \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Sapper, Agnes,1852-1929 \/ eBook \/ German","offer_id":43218115199133,"sku":"gb-23134-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/23134.jpg?v=1671467172"},{"product_id":"lie-nu-chuan-gb-24228","title":"Lie Nu Chuan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e列女傳\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n         You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of\n        any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the\n        electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of\n        receipt of the work.\n    \n\n1.F.3. 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A flood of light has been thrown on the history of\r\nItaly in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; public events and\r\npersonages have been placed in a new aspect; the judgments of posterity\r\nhave been modified and, in some instances, reversed.\nWe see now, more clearly than ever before, what manner of men and women\r\nthese Estes and Gonzagas, these Sforzas and Viscontis, were. We gain\r\nfresh insight into their characters and aims, their secret motives and\r\nprivate wishes. We see them in their daily occupations and amusements,\r\nat their work and at their play. We follow them from the battle-field\r\nand council chamber, from the chase and tournament, to the privacy of\r\ndomestic life and the intimate scenes of the family circle. And we\r\nrealize how, in spite of the tragic stories or bloodshed and strife that\r\ndarkened their lives, in spite, too, of the low standard of morals and\r\nof the crimes and vices that we are accustomed to associate with\r\nRenaissance princes, there was a rare measure of beauty and goodness, of\r\nculture and refinement, of love of justice and zeal for truth, among\r\nthem. As the latest historian of the Papacy, Dr. Pastor, has wisely\r\nremarked, we must take care not to paint the state of morals during the\r\nItalian Renaissance blacker than it really was. Virtue goes quietly on\r\n[Pg vi]her way, while vice is noisy and uproarious; the criminal forces\r\nhimself upon the public attention, while the honest man does his duty in\r\nsilence, and no one hears of him. This is especially the case with the\r\nwomen of the Renaissance. They had their faults and their weaknesses,\r\nbut the great majority among them led pure and irreproachable lives, and\r\ntrained their children in the paths of truth and duty. Even Lucrezia\r\nBorgia, although she may not have been altogether immaculate, was not\r\nthe foul creature that we once believed. And the more closely we study\r\nthese newly discovered documents, the more we become convinced that this\r\nage produced some of the most admirable types of womanhood that the\r\nworld has ever seen. When Castiglione painted his ideal woman in the\r\npages of the \"Cortigiano,\" he had no need to draw on his imagination.\r\nElizabeth Gonzaga, Duchess of Urbino, and Isabella d'Este, Marchioness\r\nof Mantua, were both of them women of great intellect and stainless\r\nvirtue, whose genuine love of art and letters attracted the choicest\r\nspirits to their court, and exerted the most beneficial influence on the\r\nthought of the day. Isabella, whose vast correspondence with the\r\nforemost painters and scholars of the age has been preserved almost\r\nintact, was probably the most remarkable lady of the Renaissance. The\r\nstory of her long and eventful lifea theme of absorbing interestyet\r\nremains to be written. The present work is devoted to the history of her\r\nyounger sister, Beatrice, Duchess of Milan, who, as the wife of Lodovico\r\nSforza, reigned during six years over the most splendid court of Italy.\r\nThe charm of her personality, the important part which she played in\r\npolitical life at a critical moment of Italian history, her love of\r\nmusic and poetry, and the fine taste which she inherited, in common with\r\nevery princess of the house of Este, all help to make Beatrice\r\nsingularly attractive, while the interest which she inspires is deepened\r\nby the pathos of her sudden and early death.\nIf in Isabella we have the supreme representative of Renaissance culture\r\nin its highest and most intellectual phase, Beatrice is the type of that\r\nnew-found joy in life, that intoxicating rapture in the actual sense of\r\nexistence, that was the heritage [Pg vii]of her generation, and found expression\r\nin the words of a contemporary novelist, Matteo Bandellohimself of\r\nLombard birthwhen with his last breath he bade his companions live\r\njoyously, \"Vivete lieti!\" We see this bride of sixteen summers\r\nflinging herself with passionate delight into every amusement, singing\r\ngay songs with her courtiers, dancing and hunting through the livelong\r\nday, outstripping all her companions in the chase, and laughing in the\r\nface of danger. We see her holding her court in the famous Castello of\r\nPorta Giovia or in the summer palaces of Vigevano and Cussago, in these\r\ngolden days when Milan was called the new Athens, when Leonardo and\r\nBramante decorated palaces or arranged masquerades at the duke's bidding,\r\nwhen Gaspare Visconti wrote sonnets in illuminated books, and Lorenzo da\r\nPavia constructed organs or viols as perfect and beautiful to see as to\r\nhear, for the pleasure of the youthful duchess. Scholars and poets,\r\npainters and writers, gallant soldiers and accomplished cavaliers, we\r\nsee them all at Beatrice's feet, striving how best they may gratify her\r\nfancies and win her smiles. Young and old, they were alike devoted to\r\nher service, from Galeazzo di Sanseverino, the valiant captain who\r\nbecame her willing slave and chosen companion, to Niccolo da Correggio,\r\nthat all-accomplished gentleman who laid down his pen and sword to design\r\nelaborate devices for his mistress's new gowns. We read her merry letters\r\nto her husband and sister, letters sparkling with wit and gaiety and\r\noverflowing with simple and natural affection. We see her rejoicing with\r\nall a young mother's proud delight over her first-born son, repeating, as\r\nmothers will, marvellous tales of his size and growth, and framing tender\r\nphrases for his infant lips. And we catch glimpses of her, too, in sadder\r\nmoods, mourning her mother's loss or wounded by neglect and unkindness.\r\nWe note how keenly her proud spirit resents wrong and injustice, and how\r\nin her turn she is not always careful of the rights and feelings of her\r\nrivals. But whatever her faults and mistakes may have been, she is always\r\nkindly and generous, human and lovable. A year or two passes, and we see\r\nher, royally arrayed in brocade and jewels, standing up in the great\r\ncouncil hall of Venice, to plead her husband's cause before the [Pg viii]Doge and\r\nSenate. Later on we find her sharing her lord's counsels in court and\r\ncamp, receiving king and emperor at Pavia or Vigevano, fascinating the\r\nsusceptible heart of Charles VIII. by her charms, and amazing Kaiser\r\nMaximilian by her wisdom and judgment in affairs of state. And then\r\nsuddenly the music and dancing, the feasting and travelling, cease, and\r\nthe richly coloured and animated pageant is brought to an abrupt close.\r\nBeatrice dies, without a moment's warning, in the flower of youth and\r\nbeauty, and the young duchess is borne to her grave in S. Maria delle\r\nGrazie amid the tears and lamentations of all Milan. And with her death,\r\nthe whole Milanese state, that fabric which Lodovico Sforza had built up\r\nat such infinite cost and pains, crumbles into ruin. Fortune, which till\r\nthat hour had smiled so kindly on the Moro and had raised him to giddy\r\nheights of prosperity, now turned her back upon him. 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It is as if the\r\nimmaterial manifestations of life that formerly emanated\r\nfrom her body were dying one by one. Her face is\r\nentirely changed. Her expression is not the same,\r\nher gestures are not the same; and she seems to me\r\nas if she were putting off every day more and more\r\nof that something, humanly speaking indefinable, which\r\nmakes the personality of a living being. Disease, before\r\nmaking an end of its victim, introduces into\r\nhis body something strange, unfamiliar, something that\r\nis not he, makes of him a new being, so to speak,\r\nin whom we must seek to find the former beinghe,\r\nwhose joyous, affectionate features have already ceased\r\nto exist.\nJuly 31.Doctor Simon is to tell me very soon\r\nwhether our dear old Rose will live or die. I am waiting\r\nto hear his ring, which to me, is equivalent to that[10]\r\nof a jury at the assizes, announcing their return to the\r\ncourt room with their verdict. \"It is all over, there is\r\nno hope, it is simply a question of time. The disease\r\nhas progressed very rapidly. One lung is entirely gone\r\nand the other substantially.\" And we must return to\r\nthe invalid, restore her serenity with a smile, give her\r\nreason to hope for convalescence in every line of our\r\nfaces. Then we feel an unconquerable longing to rush\r\nfrom the room and from the poor creature. We leave\r\nthe house, we wander at random through the streets;\r\nat last, overdone with fatigue, we sit down at a table in\r\na caf. We mechanically take up a copy of L'Illustration\r\nand our eyes fall at once upon the solution of its\r\nlast riddle: Against death, there is no appeal!\nMonday, August 11.The disease of the lungs is\r\ncomplicated with peritonitis. She has terrible pains in\r\nthe bowels, she cannot move without assistance, she cannot\r\nlie on her back or her left side. In God's name, is\r\nnot death enough? must she also endure suffering, aye,\r\ntorture, as the final implacable breaking-up of the\r\nhuman organism? And she suffers thus, poor wretch! in\r\none of the servant's rooms, where the sun, shining in\r\nthrough a window in the sloping roof, makes the air\r\nas stifling as in a hothouse, and where there is so little\r\nroom that the doctor has to put his hat on the bed.\r\nWe struggled to the last to keep her, but finally we had\r\nto make up our minds to let her go away. She was\r\nunwilling to go to Maison Dubois, where we proposed to[11]\r\ntake her; it seems that twenty-five years ago, when she\r\nfirst came to us, she went there to see the nurse in charge\r\nof Edmond, who died there, and so that particular hospital\r\nrepresents to her the place where people die. I\r\nam waiting for Simon who is to bring her a permit to\r\ngo to Lariboisire. She passed almost a good night.\r\nShe is all ready, in high spirits, in fact. We have covered\r\neverything up from her as well as we could. She\r\nlongs to be gone. She is in a great hurry. She feels\r\nthat she is going to get well there. At two o'clock\r\nSimon arrives: \"Here it is, all right.\" She refuses to\r\nhave a litter: \"I should think I was dead!\" she says.\r\nShe is dressed. As soon as she leaves her bed, all the\r\nsigns of life to be seen upon her face disappear. It is\r\nas if the earth had risen under her skin. She comes\r\ndown into our apartments. Sitting in the dining-room,\r\nwith a trembling hand, the knuckles of which knock\r\nagainst one another, she draws her stockings on over\r\na pair of legs like broomsticks, consumptive legs.\r\nThen, for a long moment, she looks about at the\r\nfamiliar objects with dying eyes that seem desirous to\r\ntake away with them the memory of the places they are\r\nleavingand the door of the apartment closes upon her\r\nwith a noise as of farewell. She reaches the foot of the\r\nstairs, where she rests for an instant on a chair. The\r\nconcierge, in a bantering tone, assures her that she will\r\nbe well in six weeks. She bows and says \"yes,\" an\r\ninaudible \"yes.\" The cab drives up to the door. She[12]\r\nrests her hand on the concierge's wife. I hold her\r\nagainst the pillow she has behind her back. With wide\r\nopen, vacant eyes she vaguely watches the houses pass,\r\nbut she does not speak. At the door of the hospital\r\nshe tries to alight without assistance. \"Can you walk\r\nso far?\" the concierge asks. She makes an affirmative\r\ngesture and walks on. Really I cannot imagine where\r\nshe procured the strength to walk as she does. Here\r\nwe are at last in the great hall, a high, cold, bare,\r\nclean place with a litter standing, all ready for use, in\r\nthe centre. I seat her in a straw armchair by a door\r\nwith a glazed wicket. A young man opens the wicket,\r\nasks my name and age and writes busily for quarter of\r\nan hour, covering ten or more sheets of paper with\r\na religious figure at the head. At last, everything is\r\nready, and I embrace her. A boy takes one arm, the\r\nhousekeeper the other.After that, I saw nothing\r\nmore.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 27711 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Goncourt, Edmond de \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Jan 5, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributor (Author)\u003c\/b\u003e: Goncourt, Jules de, 1830-1870 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Goncourt, Edmond de,1822-1896 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43218941378717,"sku":"gb-27711-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/27711.jpg?v=1671510529"},{"product_id":"history-of-woman-suffrage-volume-i-gb-28020","title":"History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory of Woman Suffrage, Volume I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history. A\r\nsurvey of the condition of the race through those barbarous periods,\r\nwhen physical force governed the world, when the motto, \"might makes\r\nright,\" was the law, enables one to account, for the origin of woman's\r\nsubjection to man without referring the fact to the general\r\ninferiority of the sex, or Nature's law.\nWriters on this question differ as to the cause of the universal\r\ndegradation of woman in all periods and nations.\nOne of the greatest minds of the century has thrown a ray of light on\r\nthis gloomy picture by tracing the origin of woman's slavery to the\r\nsame principle of selfishness and love of power in man that has thus\r\nfar dominated all weaker nations and classes. This brings hope of\r\nfinal emancipation, for as all nations and classes are gradually, one\r\nafter another, asserting and maintaining their independence, the path\r\nis clear for woman to follow. The slavish instinct of an oppressed\r\nclass has led her to toil patiently through the ages, giving all and\r\nasking little, cheerfully sharing with man all perils and privations\r\nby land and sea, that husband and sons might attain honor and success.\r\nJustice and freedom for herself is her latest and highest demand.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 28020 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Feb 7, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Anthony, Susan B. 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The words of cordial approval from a large\r\ncircle of friends, and especially from women well known in periodical\r\nliterature, have been to us a constant stimulus during the toilsome\r\nmonths we have spent in gathering material for these pages. It was our\r\npurpose to have condensed the records of the last twenty years in a\r\nsecond volume, but so many new questions in regard to Citizenship,\r\nState rights, and National power, indirectly bearing on the political\r\nrights of women, grew out of the civil war, that the arguments and\r\ndecisions in Congress and the Supreme Courts have combined to swell\r\nthese pages beyond our most liberal calculations, with much valuable\r\nmaterial that can not be condensed nor ignored, making a third volume\r\ninevitable.\nBy their active labors all through the great conflict, women learned\r\nthat they had many interests outside the home. In the camp and\r\nhospital, and the vacant places at their firesides, they saw how\r\nintimately the interests of the State and the home were intertwined;\r\nthat as war and all its concomitants were subjects of legislation, it\r\nwas only through a voice in the laws that their efforts for peace\r\ncould command consideration.\nThe political significance of the war, and the prolonged discussions\r\non the vital principles of government involved in the reconstruction,\r\nthrew new light on the status of woman in a republic. Under a liberal\r\ninterpretation of the XIV. Amendment, women, believing their rights of\r\ncitizenship secured, made several attempts to vote in different\r\nStates. Those who succeeded were arrested, tried, and convicted. Those\r\nwho were denied the right to register their names and deposit their\r\nvotes, sued the Inspectors of Election. Others[Pg iv] attempting to practice\r\nlaw, being denied that right in the States, took their cases up to the\r\nSupreme Court of the United States for adjudication. Others invaded\r\nthe pulpit, asking to be ordained, which brought the question of\r\nwoman's right to preach before ecclesiastical assemblies. These\r\nvarious attempts to secure her political and civil rights have called\r\nforth endless discussions on woman's true position in the State, the\r\nchurch, and the world of work.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 28039 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Anthony, Susan B. 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But since stereotype plates will not\r\nreflect our growing sense of perfection, the lavish praise of\r\nfriends as to the merits of these pages will have its antidote in\r\nthe defects we ourselves discover. We may however without egotism\r\nexpress the belief that this volume will prove specially\r\ninteresting in having a large number of contributors from England,\r\nFrance, Canada and the United States, giving personal experiences\r\nand the progress of legislation in their respective localities.\nInto younger hands we must soon resign our work; but as long as\r\nhealth and vigor remain, we hope to publish a pamphlet report at\r\nthe close of each congressional term, containing whatever may be\r\naccomplished by State and National legislation, which can be\r\nreadily bound in volumes similar to these, thus keeping a full\r\nrecord of the prolonged battle until the final victory shall be\r\nachieved. To what extent these publications may be multiplied\r\ndepends on when the day of woman's emancipation shall dawn.\nFor the completion of this work we are indebted to Eliza Jackson\r\n[Pg iv]Eddy, the worthy daughter of that noble philanthropist, Francis\r\nJackson. He and Charles F. Hovey are the only men who have ever\r\nleft a generous bequest to the woman suffrage movement. To Mrs.\r\nEddy, who bequeathed to our cause two-thirds of her large fortune,\r\nbelong all honor and praise as the first woman who has given alike\r\nher sympathy and her wealth to this momentous and far-reaching\r\nreform. This heralds a turn in the tide of benevolence, when,\r\ninstead of building churches and monuments to great men, and\r\nendowing colleges for boys, women will make the education and\r\nenfranchisement of their own sex the chief object of their lives.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 28556 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Apr 11, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Anthony, Susan B. 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They do far more than\r\nthis, for seeds sown in the early days which they describe would have\r\nfallen upon ground so stony that if they had sprung up they would soon\r\nhave withered away. The pioneers in the work for the redemption of\r\nwomen found an unbroken field, not fallow from lying idle, but arid\r\nand barren, filled with the unyielding rocks of prejudice and choked\r\nwith the thorns of conservatism. It required many years of labor as\r\nhard as that endured by the forefathers in wresting their lands from\r\nundisturbed nature, before the ground was even broken to receive the\r\nseed. Then followed the long period of persistent tilling and sowing\r\nwhich brought no reaping until the last quarter of the century, when\r\nthe scanty harvest began to be gathered. The yield has seemed small\r\nindeed at the end of each twelvemonth and it is only when viewed in\r\nthe aggregate that its size can be appreciated. The condition of woman\r\nto-day compared with that of last year seems unchanged, but contrasted\r\nwith that of fifty years ago it presents as great a revolution as the\r\nworld has ever witnessed in this length of time.\nIf the first organized demand for the rights of womanmade at the\r\nmemorable convention of Seneca Falls, N. Y., in 1848had omitted the\r\none for the franchise, those who made it would have lived to see all\r\ngranted. It asked for woman the right to have personal freedom, to\r\nacquire an education, to earn a living, to claim her wages, to own\r\nproperty, to make contracts, to bring suit, to testify in court, to\r\nobtain a divorce for just cause, to possess her children, to claim a\r\nfair share of the accumulations during marriage. An examination of\r\nChap. XXIV and the following chapters in this volume will show that in\r\nmany of the States[Pg xiv] all these privileges are now accorded, and in not\r\none are all refused, but when this declaration was framed all were\r\ndenied by every State. For the past half century there has been a\r\nsteady advance in the direction of equal rights for women. In many\r\ninstances these have been granted in response to the direct efforts of\r\nwomen themselves; in others without exertion on their part but through\r\nthe example of neighboring States and as a result of the general trend\r\ntoward a long-delayed justice. Enough has been accomplished in all of\r\nthe above lines to make it absolutely certain that within a few years\r\nwomen everywhere in the United States will enjoy entire equality of\r\nlegal, civil and social rights.\nBehind all of these has been the persistent demand for political\r\nrights, and the question naturally arises, \"Why do these continue to\r\nbe denied? Educated, property-owning, self-reliant and\r\npublic-spirited, why are women still refused a voice in the\r\nGovernment? Citizens in the fullest sense of the word, why are they\r\ndeprived of the suffrage in a country whose institutions rest upon\r\nindividual representation?\"\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 29870 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 31, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Anthony, Susan B. 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It is only within the\r\nlast century and a half that a constitutional form of government has\r\nbeen secured by any countries and in the most of those where it now\r\nexists, not excepting the United States, it was won through war and\r\nbloodshed. Largely for this reason its principal advantage was\r\nmonopolized by men, who made and carried on war, and who held that\r\nsuch government must be maintained by physical force and only those\r\nshould have a voice in it who could fight for it if necessary. There\r\nwere many other reasons why those who had thus secured their right to\r\na vote should use their new power to withhold it from women, which was\r\ndone in every country. Women then had to begin their own contest for\r\nwhat by the law of justice was theirs as much as men's when government\r\nby constitution was established.\nTheir struggle lasted for nearly three-quarters of a century in the\r\nUnited States and half a century in Great Britain, the two largest\r\nconstitutional governments, and a shorter time in other countries, but\r\nit was a peaceful revolution. Not a drop of blood was spilled and\r\ntoward the end of it, when in Great Britain the only \"militancy\"\r\noccurred, its leaders gave the strictest orders that human life must\r\nbe held sacred. Although at the last the women of Central Europe were\r\nenfranchised as the result of war it was not of their making and their\r\npart in it was not on the battlefield. This was the most unequal\r\ncontest that ever was waged, for one side had to fight without\r\nweapons. It was held against women that they were not educated, but\r\nthe doors of all institutions of learning were closed against them;[Pg xvi]\r\nthat they were not taxpayers, although money-earning occupations were\r\nbarred to them and if married they were not allowed to own property.\r\nThey were kept in subjection by authority of the Scriptures and were\r\nnot permitted to expound them from the woman's point of view, and they\r\nwere prevented from pleading their cause on the public platform. When\r\nthey had largely overcome these handicaps they found themselves facing\r\na political fight without political power.\nThe long story of the early period of this contest will be found in\r\nthe preceding volumes of this History and it is one without parallel.\r\nNo class of men ever strove seventy or even fifty years for the\r\nsuffrage. In every other reform which had to be won through\r\nlegislative bodies those who were working for it had the power of the\r\nvote over these bodies. In the Introduction to Volume IV is an\r\nextended review of the helpless position of woman when in 1848 the\r\nfirst demand for equality of rights was made and her gradual emergence\r\nfrom its bondage. No sudden revolution could have gained it but only\r\nthe slow processes of evolution. The founding of the public school\r\nsystem with its high schools, from which girls could not be excluded,\r\nsolved the question of their education and inevitably led to the\r\nopening of the colleges. In the causes of temperance and anti-slavery\r\nwomen made their way to the platform and remained to speak for their\r\nown. During the Civil War they entered by thousands the places vacated\r\nby men and retained them partly from necessity and partly from choice.\n\u003cb\u003e ......Buy Now (To Read More)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eProduct details\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEbook Number\u003c\/b\u003e: 29878 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor\u003c\/b\u003e: Harper, Ida Husted \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date\u003c\/b\u003e: Aug 31, 2009 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat\u003c\/b\u003e: eBook \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage\u003c\/b\u003e: English \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEditor\u003c\/b\u003e: Harper, Ida Husted, 1851-1931 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Harper, Ida Husted,1851-1931 \/ eBook \/ English","offer_id":43219222495389,"sku":"gb-29878-ebook","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/products\/29878.jpg?v=1671518403"}],"url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/collections\/history-women.oembed?page=5","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}