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The Life and Times of Elizabeth Upham Yates


The Life and Times of Elizabeth Upham Yates

A Crusader for Women's Suffrage, Temperance, and Missionary Work

von: Shannon M. Risk

44,99 €

Verlag: Lexington Books
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 20.03.2023
ISBN/EAN: 9781666929195
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 248

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<p><span>Elizabeth Upham Yates (1857–1942) was a nationally known reformer in the United States in the fields of temperance, women’s suffrage, simple living, and missionary work. </span><span>The Life and Times of Elizabeth Upham Yates: A Crusader for Women’s Suffrage, Temperance, and Missionary Work</span><span> documents Yates’s life from her coastal Maine origins through her missionary activities in China in the 1880s to her political career in the 1920s. Upon her return from China to the United States, Yates’s reputation grew as a master orator who stirred the suffrage spirit on campaign trails across the country. In 1920, the first year that women could campaign for office in Rhode Island, she ran for the Democratic ticket for lieutenant governor, earning 50,000 votes. She railed against jingoists like Theodore Roosevelt in the </span><span>New York Times</span><span> and chastised male political leadership for ignoring the lynching crisis. During her long career, her suffrage sisters memorialized her as a “prophet and a dreamer.” Shannon M. Risk draws on sources ranging from regional histories and shipping passenger manifests to archival papers at the Library of Congress and Yates’s own writing to shed new light on this suffragist’s life and work.</span></p>
<p><span>This biography chronicles the life of Elizabeth Upham Yates who fostered a kind of "American dream" for the single, educated woman in the industrial era. She served as a missionary to China, and then blazed women's suffrage and temperance campaign trails for thirty years as the protege of Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Frances Willard.</span></p>
<p><span>Introduction: The Life of Elizabeth Upham Yates</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 1. Growing Up in Maine, 1857--1880: Steeped in Methodism </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 2. Missionary, 1880--1885: Yates’ Role in a Modernizing China</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 3. A New Path, 1885-1896: Lecturing for Temperance and Women’s Suffrage</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 4. In Between the Nation and Maine, 1896-1908: Balancing Home and National Work </span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 5. “The Last General of Rhode Island,” 1909-1920: Leading the Final </span></p>
<p><span>Suffrage Effort</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 6. Victory and Defeat, 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment and Running for Lieutenant </span></p>
<p><span>Governor of Rhode Island</span></p>
<p><span>Chapter 7. Towards the Setting Sun, 1920-1942: Battling Disability in Trying Times</span></p>
<p><span>Shannon M. Risk</span><span> is associate professor of history and directs the public history and women’s studies minors at Niagara University in New York.</span></p>

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