Originally published as chapters in Charles Morris’s “Heroes of American Progress” (1906) and Grace Humphrey’s “Women in American History” (1919), this Kindle edition, equivalent in length to a physical book of approximately 60 pages, describes the lives and work of eight great women of American history.
CONTENTS
I. Anne Hutchinson
II. Betsy Ross
III. Lucretia Mott
IV. Dorothea Dix
V. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
VI. Julia Ward Howe
VII. Susan B. Anthony
VIII. Clara Barton
Sample passage:
What principally roused Miss Anthony’s indignation at this time was to see men whom she felt to be much inferior to her in education and ability as teachers receiving three times her salary. It was this injustice, as she deemed it, that led her first to lift her voice in public. This was at a meeting of the New York State Teachers’ Association, where some of the men were deploring the fact that their profession was not held to be as honorable and influential as those of the lawyer, the doctor, and the minister.
During a pause in the debate Miss Anthony rose and, to the horror of many of them, began to speak. In those days for a woman to venture to offer her views in a meeting of men, or, for that matter, in any meeting, was looked upon as an event utterly out of woman’s sphere. The fair rebel against the conventionalities did not sin greatly. Her speech was not a long one, but what there was of it was telling and pithy. She said:
“Do you not see that as long as society says that a woman has not brains enough to be a lawyer, a doctor, or a minister, but has ample brains to be a teacher, every man of you who condescends to teach school tacitly acknowledges before all Israel and the sun that he hasn’t any more brains than a woman?”
About the authors:
Charles Morris (1833-1922) was the author of numerous books for young and old, including “The Lives of the Presidents and How They Reached the White House,” “Tales from the Dramatists,” and “Primary History of the United States.” Grace Humphrey (born 1882) was an author of history whose other works include “Heroes of Liberty,” “Stories of Our Great Inventions,” and “Father Takes Us to Boston.”
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