Before They Could Vote: American Women's Autobiographical Writing, 1819-1919 (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography). Sidonie A. Smith, Julia Watson

Before They Could Vote: American Women's Autobiographical Writing, 1819-1919 (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography)



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Page: 470
ISBN: 0299220508, 9780299220532

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Smith and Watson, professors at the University of Michigan and the Ohio State University respectively, have culled from a wide spectrum of American women's autobiographical writing of the 100 years between 1819-when "An Authentic Statement of the Case and Conduct of Rose Butler, who was tried, convicted, and executed for the crime of arson" was published-and 1919, the year before women were granted the vote. They include everything from the relatively well-known captivity narrative of Mary Jemison to an obscure 1912 piece titled "Sui Sin Far, the Half Chinese Writer, Tells of Her Career." In their introduction, Smith and Watson argue the authors used their writings as "capital" in which to negotiate the public and private worlds, in a "pursuit of action and agency." The selections, introduced by brief author biographies, bear that out, as in "The Life and Religious Experience of Jarena Lee" from 1836, in which a free African-American writes unabashedly of (as one section of her narrative is titled) "My Call to Preach the Gospel." There are 22 selections in all, including Zitkala-Sa (née Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, born to a white father and Sioux mother), Eulalia Pérez (who worked at the San Gabriel mission), and such well-known figures as Sojourner Truth, Margaret Fuller and Harriet Tubman. Intended for course use, the book offers a fine selection of diverse voices.
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Review

 "This indispensable collection is . . . important for its range of topics-social uplift, geography, education, lynching, sanctification, Indian removal, deafness, and abolition, among others."—Dale M. Bauer, coeditor, The Cambridge Companion to Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing

“This rich new anthology sets in motion an inter-textual conversation of remarkable vitality that will change the ways we understand gender, class, ethnicity, culture, and nation in nineteenth-century America.”—Susanna Egan, author of Mirror-Talk



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