To The Young Wife
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Are you content, you pretty three-years’ wife?
Are you content and satisfied to live
On what your loving husband loves to give,
And give to him your life? Continue reading To The Young Wife
Tag Archives: Women’s Rights
Backlog Studies (Excerpts)
Backlog refers to the large piece of wood that supports the fire in a large fire place (and therefore lasts longest). In the beginning of the book, Warner expresses his fear that fireplaces are going out of style with the introduction of new technologies for heating homes and that the important things that happen around fireplaces are also destined to disappear, namely conversations with family and neighbors and the contemplation and reflection that fireplaces inspire. The book is a “study” or demonstration of the conversation that fireplaces inspire. Continue reading Backlog Studies (Excerpts)
“A Mother’s Letters to a Daughter on Woman Suffrage” (1868)
A Mother’s Letters to a Daughter on Woman Suffrage
by Isabella Beecher Hooker
Tracts of Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, No. 2
Hartford, Conn.
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from Two on an Old Pathway
from Two on an Old Pathway
by Eleanor O’Rourke Koenig
(Hartford: Edwin Valentine Mitchell, 1929)
CONQUEST
She had a way
Of sweeping up a room
Then for a minute
Hanging on the broom.
Plumb in the middle—
There she would stand
Holding a broom
And the world in her hand.
from Herb Woman and Other Poems
from Herb Woman and Other Poems
by Eleanor C. Koenig
(New York: Harold Vinal, 1926)
RELEASE
OH, let me run with autumn winds
That pass through reeds and rushes
Let me shriek with evening gales
In ragged currant bushes.
Let me tear through aspen trees,
Roar on naked beaches,
Let me howl through bending oaks
In haunted woodland reaches.
I tell you, this, the grief I hold
Is no considerate sorrow;
This is the King of Pain who must
A fitting garment borrow. Continue reading from Herb Woman and Other Poems
The Last of the Beechers: Memories on my Eighty-Third Birthday
The Last of the Beechers: Memories on my Eighty-Third Birthday (Connecticut Magazine, 1905)
by Isabella Beecher Hooker
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Shall Women Vote?
SHALL WOMEN VOTE?
A Matrimonial Dialogue
By Isabella Beecher Hooker
Scene: New York, February 18, 1860
Dramatis Personae: Mr. Smith and Mrs. Smith
Mr. Smith:
Did you read this Editorial in the Independent, on women’s voting? Continue reading Shall Women Vote?
The Constitutional Rights Of The Women Of The United States
The Constitutional Rights Of The Women Of The United States: An Address Before the International Council of Women, Washington D. C., March 30, 1888
by Isabella Beecher Hooker
In the month of August, 1774, that eminent statesman and true patriot, Thomas, Jefferson, in a little tract entitled “A Summary View of the Rights of British America,” used certain words which I will take for my text while addressing you to-day on the “Constitutional Rights of the Women Citizens of the United States.” They are these: Continue reading The Constitutional Rights Of The Women Of The United States
from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Clemens’s fascination with English history developed with his visits to the country and his research for The Prince and the Pauper (1881), a tale of a royal and a commoner changing places so each could find out what he had been envying. He was fascinated by the Elizabethan period and its wholesome frankness about sex and bodily functions, which he celebrated in a short obscene work called 1601: Conversation as it Was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors. The book was concealed to all but select male friends, but is now freely readable on the Internet. Continue reading from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court