Penny Colman

Weaving events, quotations, personalities, and commentary into a page-turning narrative, Penny Colman's Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony vividly portrays a friendship that changed history. In the Spring of 1851 two women met on a street corner in Seneca Falls, New York-Elizabeth Cady Stanton, a thirty-five year old mother of four boys, and Susan B. Anthony, a thirty-one year old, unmarried, former school teacher. Immediately drawn to each...

The momentous, gripping story of women's fight for the right to vote in America. Replete with political intrigues and betrayals, pageantry and parades, pickets, violent mobs, and police brutality, The Vote interweaves ideas--the reordering of women's roles and rights--with contested issues involving race, class, tactics, and politics. Infused with women's words and vivid personalities, The Vote is relevant to current issues including voting rights...

Traces the history of growing up female in America as told by the girls themselves in journals, household manuals, letters, slave narratives, and other primary sources.

Recounts Dorothea Dix's lifelong fight to improve the lives of others, such as her own family, the mentally ill, prisoners, the physically ill, and the retarded.