Author | Elwood-Akers, Virginia, 1938-
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Title | Caroline Severance / Virginia Elwood-Akers.
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Published | New York : iUniverse Inc., c2010.
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Description | xi, 382 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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ISBN | 1-4502-3626-X |
ISBN | 978-1-4502-3626-3 |
ISBN | 1-4502-3627-8 |
ISBN | 978-1-4502-3627-0 |
General Note | "iUniverse rev. date: 09/14/2010."
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Bib. Note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-336) and index.
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Summary Note | Summary: "Based upon twenty years of exhaustive research, this is the biography of a woman who was in the forefront of every human rights movement of her time. Caroline was an abolitionist, a suffragist, an advocate for women's health and women physicians, a peace activist, and a socialist. She was a leader of the suffrage movement before the Civil War and afterward lived to vote in an American presidential election"--Cover p.4.
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Acq. Note Source | Gift of Virginia Elwood-Akers, 2011.
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Subjects | Feminists -- United States -- Biography. Friday Morning Club (Los Angeles, Calif.) -- History. Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914. Suffragists -- United States -- Biography. Women -- United States -- Societies and clubs -- History. Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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| WRHS Research Library: HQ 1413 S498 E52 2010 mq244825: LC class, open stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
[Record 147268] |
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