Word: suffragists
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...Schlesinger Library was founded in 1942 when suffragist Maud Wood Park (class of 1898) donated her collection on woman's rights to Radcliffe...
Jake Barnes, the emasculated expatriate hero of Ernest Hemingway's classic, is the beneficiary of a breakthrough operation in the romantic world of Paris in the '20s. With the help of supplemental hormones, Jacqueline Barnes goes on to become a suffragist and campaigner against alcoholism...
...from the beginning, there were clubwomen with a more ambitious agenda -- to reform not only themselves but society. Over the years they provided the leadership for the suffragist movement, child-labor reform, conservation, temperance and civil rights. "You have to remember," says Karen Blair, assistant professor of history at Central Washington University, "that until 1920 women didn't have the vote, and this was their only way to have a public voice outside the home...
...foldout cover painting, created by Illustrator Richard Hess, captures that spirit by gathering a panorama of disparate figures from every period of U.S. history -- Native American and police officer, physician and flower child, colonial mother and suffragist -- all united by the principles of the Constitution...
...hand Verena's education, upbringing, and welfare over to Olive. She spirits the girl away to Beacon Hill, and away from all the distractions that could affect an impressionable young woman of that age. Olive's fear for Verena's "impurity" is a fear of everything outside the narrow Suffragist circle of dedicated ladies and genteel performs...