Greetings! As I said earlier, throughout the summer, I will be posting transcripts from the diary of Susan B. Anthony, who with her fellow women’s rights activist Ernestine Rose visited Washington, D.C., and its environs in the spring of 1854. This is the third in the series. March 24 Directed tickets to Mrs. Rose meeting on […]
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As I mentioned in my last post, I am transcribing the portion of Susan B. Anthony’s diary in which Anthony details her trip to Washington, D.C., and thereabouts in 1854 with fellow women’s rights activist Ernestine Rose. As before, the entries are followed by my notations. March 22 Rainy & snowy this A.M. Mr. &
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As some of you know, I am working on a biography of nineteenth-century feminist Ernestine Rose, who is also the subject of my historical novel The Queen of the Platform. An accomplished public speaker who lectured on women’s rights, the abolition of slavery, religious freethought, and other issues of the day, Ernestine Rose was a
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In July 1899, Susan B. Anthony, who was nearly eighty, was in London for the International Council of Women. She wrangled a visit to Windsor Castle for the group: One day I said to Lady Aberdeen, “Now if this great Council were in Washington, I should certainly get an invitation for you to call on
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I love diaries, especially women’s diaries from the Civil War era, so when I saw a mention of the diary of Rachel Rosalie Phillips and found out where a transcript was held, I had to get a copy of it. It’s an account of a young woman’s stay in Washington, D.C., in 1864, when a
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In May 1855, American newspapers were abuzz with talk of a wedding. The bride and groom were not society folk or European royalty: they were Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell, abolitionists and women’s rights activists. Although in many ways their wedding ceremony was typical of the time—the bride wore a lovely dress, a clergyman performed the
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As you may know, I collect nineteenth-century photographs. I belong to a few Facebook groups on the subject, and quite often someone posts a photograph of a small boy in a dress, usually resulting in cries of “That’s a girl!” or, too often, “That’s horrible! He must have been humiliated!” In fact, dressing small boys
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For Women’s History Month, here’s a short piece I posted on Facebook about dress reformer, army surgeon, author, and eccentric Dr. Mary Edwards Walker (1832-1919). (She doesn’t appear in The Queen of the Platform, as I have no evidence that she and Ernestine Rose ever met, but it would have been fun to overhear a
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At long last, I’m pleased to say that The Queen of the Platform will be available on March 12, just in time for Women’s History Month! It can be found in paperback and e-book form at your favorite online bookstore or ordered in paperback through your local bookseller. Can’t wait to get my latest book
(This post originally appeared as a guest post on Linda Bennett Pennell’s blog, History Imagined.) In researching my historical novels set in nineteenth-century America, I have come across a number of people, now obscure, who deserve to be remembered for their heroism. One is David Ruggles, a black abolitionist. Born in Lyme, Connecticut, on March
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