item: #1 of 26 id: 11376 author: Besant, Annie title: Autobiographical Sketches date: None words: 71625 flesch: 64 summary: I have found, with a keen sense of pleasure, that Mr. Bradlaugh and myself were in 1867 to some extent co-workers, although we knew not of each other's existence, and although he was doing much, and I only giving such poor sympathy as a young girl might, who was only just awakening to the duty of political work. Mr. Bradlaugh is rather a rough sort of speaker, is he not? He is the finest speaker of Saxon English that I have ever heard, Mrs. Conway answered, except, perhaps, John Bright, and his power over a crowd is something marvellous. keywords: besant; book; bradlaugh; case; charles; chief; child; children; christ; church; court; day; death; doubt; england; faith; father; freethought; george; god; good; home; house; justice; knowlton; law; life; like; lord; love; man; matter; men; mother; mrs; national; pamphlet; people; place; poor; population; question; reformer; right; room; school; sir; society; thought; time; watts; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; years; young; | | cache: 11376.txt plain text: 11376.txt item: #2 of 26 id: 11672 author: Hecker, Eugene A. (Eugene Arthur) title: A Short History of Women's Rights From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time. with Special Reference to England and the United States. Second Edition Revised, With Additions. date: None words: 76885 flesch: 66 summary: ON THE LATER HISTORY OF ROMAN LAW Explanation of the various social and political forces which affected the position of women in the Middle Ages CHAPTER VI THE CANON LAW AND THE ATTITUDE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Canon law reaffirms the subjection of women--Women and marriage--Protection to women--Divorce--Cardinal Gibbons on protection of injured wives by Popes--Catholic Church has no divorce--But it allows fourteen reasons for declaring marriage null and void and leaving a husband or wife free to remarry--Some of these explained--Diriment impediments and dispensations--Historical instances of the Roman Church's inconsistency--Attitude towards women at present day--Opinions of Cardinals Gibbon and Moran, and Rev. David Barry and Rev. William Humphrey--Sources CHAPTER VII WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN ENGLAND Single women have always had private rights--But males preferred in inheritance--Examples--Power of parents--Husband and wife--Wife completely controlled by husband--He could beat her and own all her property--Recent abrogation of the husband's power--Divorce--Jeremy Taylor and others on duty of women to bear husband's sins with meekness--Injustice of the present law of divorce--Rape and the age of legal consent--Progress of the rights to an education--Women in the professions--Woman suffrage--Sources CHAPTER VIII WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN THE UNITED STATES Examples of the early opposition to women's rights--Age of consent--Single women--History of agitation for women's rights--Convention of 1848--Progress after the Civil War--Beginnings of higher education--First women in medicine--And in law, the ministry, journalism, and industry--Status of women in all the States in 1910--Sources CHAPTER IX GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS It still insists on the subjection of the woman to the man, and it is bitterly hostile to woman suffrage. keywords: action; adultery; canon; carpenters; case; century; children; church; codex; condition; consent; court; cruelty; curtesy; daughter; day; death; dentists; desertion; dig; divorce; doctors; dowry; drunkenness; earnings; education; england; equal; estate; example; factory; family; father; female; guardian; half; history; hours; husband; iii; impotence; industrial; journalists; keepers; labour; law; laws; lawyers; lex; life; marriage; marry; matter; ministry; mother; neglect; new; non; old; order; party; paulus; people; place; population; position; power; present; professors; property; public; real; rights; roman; saloon; school; school suffrage; second; sex; shall; sidenote; society; states; subject; suffrage; sunday; support; time; travellers; ulpian; united; vote; wife; woman suffrage; women; work; years; york cache: 11672.txt plain text: 11672.txt item: #3 of 26 id: 12044 author: Birney, Catherine H. title: The Grimké Sisters Sarah and Angelina Grimké: the First American Women Advocates of Abolition and Woman's Rights date: None words: 95623 flesch: 68 summary: The appeal is made chiefly to woman's tenderest and holiest feelings, but enough is said of her rights to show whither Angelina's own reflections were leading her, and it must have turned the thoughts of many other women in the same direction. Neither Sarah nor Angelina had any idea of starting such a revolution, but when they found it fairly inaugurated, and that many women had long privately held the same views as they did and were ready to follow in their lead, they bravely accepted, and to the end of their lives as bravely sustained all the responsibilities their opinions involved. keywords: angelina; brother; cause; charleston; children; christian; church; day; dear; duty; family; father; feelings; friends; god; good; grimké; heart; home; house; letter; life; lord; love; meeting; men; mind; mother; new; people; philadelphia; place; public; question; read; right; sarah; sister; slavery; slaves; society; soul; spirit; state; subject; suffering; thee; things; thou; thought; thy; time; views; way; weld; woman; words; work; years cache: 12044.txt plain text: 12044.txt item: #4 of 26 id: 12052 author: Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon title: Half a Century date: None words: 100385 flesch: 76 summary: Had others to Col. Benton, Henry Clay, and other great men, but he who most interested me was Dr. Gamaliel Bailey, editor of the _National Era_. Each one seemed to stand before me, his innermost soul laid bare, and his idiosyncrasy I was sure to strike with sarcasm, ridicule solemn denunciations, old truths from Bible and history and the opinions of good men. keywords: bed; black; business; care; case; chapter; charge; children; church; city; cloud; day; days; death; die; door; dress; duty; eyes; face; father; feet; friends; general; god; good; government; ground; half; hand; head; home; hope; hospital; house; husband; lady; law; leave; life; man; master; meeting; men; minnesota; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; office; paper; party; people; pittsburg; place; public; room; save; saw; set; slavery; state; surgeon; thought; time; tom; visiter; want; ward; water; way; white; wife; women; work; world; years cache: 12052.txt plain text: 12052.txt item: #5 of 26 id: 12226 author: Dorr, Rheta Childe title: What eight million women want date: None words: 55456 flesch: 66 summary: As journalist and author and club woman Miss Meredith is known far beyond her own State, and her nomination created intense interest not only among the women of her own city and State, but among club women everywhere. Established by club women and for years supported by them.] keywords: american; association; business; chicago; children; city; club women; clubs; committee; conditions; council; country; court; dance; day; department; dollars; domestic; factory; girls; good; hall; home; hours; house; husband; industrial; labor; law; laws; league; man; miss; mrs; new; new york; night; place; property; public; school; service; social; state; store; suffrage; time; union; united; vote; wife; women; women workers; work; workers; working; world; years; york; young cache: 12226.txt plain text: 12226.txt item: #6 of 26 id: 15380 author: Johnston, Harry title: Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement date: None words: 129118 flesch: 75 summary: That's enough, said her defender, it wanted the voice to make me sure; but somehow I thought all along it _was_ Vivie. Give them _manly_ men; avowed soldiers and sailors, riders to hounds, sportsmen, big game hunters, game-keepers, chauffeurs--the chauffeur was becoming a new factor in Society, Bernard Shaw's superman--prize-fighters, meat-salesmen--then you knew where you were. keywords: adams; armstrong; army; bar; belgian; belgium; bertie; beryl; boy; british; brussels; business; case; children; colonel; come; country; course; court; daughter; david; david williams; day; days; dear; death; door; england; english; eyes; face; fact; father; find; frank; fraser; friends; german; good; government; half; hand; head; heart; help; home; honoria; hotel; house; husband; kind; know; lady; law; leave; letter; life; linda; little; london; look; love; man; michael; mind; miss; money; months; morning; mother; mrs; new; norie; office; past; people; place; police; poor; pounds; praddy; praed; present; prison; public; rate; return; right; room; rossiter; round; sir; soldiers; south; story; suffrage; talk; tea; things; thought; time; turn; vavasour; vivie; vivie warren; von; wales; want; warren; way; wife; williams; women; work; years; young cache: 15380.txt plain text: 15380.txt item: #7 of 26 id: 15788 author: Granville-Barker, Harley title: Waste: A Tragedy, In Four Acts date: None words: 35636 flesch: 91 summary: [_Ranging himself with_ FARRANT.] The matter is beyond_ FARRANT. keywords: amy; amy o'connell; blackborough; cantelupe; come; davenport; farrant; frances trebell; good; horsham; kent; lady; life; lucy; man; men; mrs; o'connell; room; thing; thought; time; trebell; walter; wedgecroft; woman cache: 15788.txt plain text: 15788.txt item: #8 of 26 id: 2157 author: Cooper, Susan Fenimore title: Female Suffrage: A Letter to the Christian Women of America date: None words: 15353 flesch: 64 summary: It is also an error to suppose that among the claimants for suffrage single women are the most numerous or the most clamorous. But we are writing now to American women, and, instead of the evils existing in the other hemisphere, we are looking at a very different state of society. keywords: american; christian; country; duties; education; good; life; man; position; right; sex; society; suffrage; vote; women; work cache: 2157.txt plain text: 2157.txt item: #9 of 26 id: 23233 author: Wollstonecraft, Mary title: Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman date: None words: 92959 flesch: 70 summary: Write often to your poor girl, and write long letters; for I not only like them for being longer, but because more heart steals into them; and I am happy to catch your heart I have found out that I have more mind than you, in one respect; because I can, without any violent effort of reason, find food for love in the same object, much longer than you can.--The way to my senses is through my heart; but, forgive me! keywords: affection; care; character; child; conduct; darnford; day; dear; emotions; eyes; father; feelings; friend; girl; god; good; head; heart; hope; house; husband; imagination; jemima; know; left; letter; life; love; man; maria; mind; moment; morning; mother; nature; night; place; pleasure; present; reason; respect; society; soul; state; tenderness; think; thought; till; time; uncle; venables; want; wish; woman; world cache: 23233.txt plain text: 23233.txt item: #10 of 26 id: 30855 author: Wells, H. G. (Herbert George) title: The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman date: None words: 132463 flesch: 77 summary: You will be Lady Harman, he exulted; _Lady_ Harman. Horatio Blenker, Sir Isaac's editor, showed a disposition to be socially very helpful, and after Mrs. Blenker had called in a state of worldly instructiveness, there was a little dinner at the Blenkers' to introduce young Lady Harman to the great political world. keywords: air; black; brumley; business; car; children; come; course; dark; day; days; door; effect; elly; end; eyes; face; feeling; garden; georgina; girls; good; hand; head; home; hostels; house; husband; idea; isaac harman; kind; lady beach; lady harman; left; life; little; london; look; love; mandarin; manner; marriage; matter; mean; mind; miss; moment; money; mother; mrs; new; open; pembrose; people; place; point; quality; read; right; room; round; sawbridge; sense; set; sir isaac; snagsby; social; sort; strand; susan; table; talk; tea; things; thinking; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; wife; window; woman; work; world; years cache: 30855.txt plain text: 30855.txt item: #11 of 26 id: 33700 author: Schirmacher, Käthe title: The Modern Woman's Rights Movement: A Historical Survey date: None words: 36391 flesch: 62 summary: Woman's suffrage movement, organized internationally, xii, xiii. in the United States, 2-23. in Australia, 49-58. in England, 58-74. in Canada, 98, 99. in South Africa, 100, 101. in Sweden, 104, 108, 109. in Finland, 114-116. in Norway, 119-121. in Denmark, 124, 125. in Iceland, 125. in the Netherlands, 130-133. in Switzerland, 141-143. in Germany, 153-157. in German Austria, 166-169. in Hungary, 172, 173. in France, 188 and ff. in Belgium, 194, 195. in Italy, 202 and ff. in Russia, 227-229. in Czechish Bohemia and Moravia, 231, 232. in Japan, 262. Woman's suffrage states (United States), and educational matters, 27. women jurors in, 28. laws concerning women and children in, 39, 40. Women, _see also_ The Woman's Reading Circle of Berne had, since 1906, demanded political rights for women, and the Zurich Society for the Reform of Education for Girls had worked in favor of woman's suffrage. keywords: alliance; austria; cent; class; clubs; conditions; congress; education; federation; france; french; german; girls; government; great; husband; international; law; league; miss; movement; mrs; note; number; organization; property; public; rights; rights movement; russian; schools; society; states; suffrage; total; united; universities; university; vote; wife; women; women doctors; women laborers; women teachers; work; years cache: 33700.txt plain text: 33700.txt item: #12 of 26 id: 354 author: Shaw, Anna Howard title: The Story of a Pioneer date: None words: 87768 flesch: 72 summary: She was one of the first Unitarians in England, and years before any thought of woman suffrage entered the minds of her country-women she refused to pay tithes to the support of the Church of England--an action which precipitated a long-drawn-out conflict between her and the law. I have not yet won the great and vital fight of my life, to which I have given myself, heart and soul, for the past thirty years--the campaign for woman suffrage. keywords: anthony; association; audience; aunt; campaign; cause; church; city; convention; council; course; day; days; dollars; end; experience; eyes; father; friends; going; good; hall; heart; home; house; interest; international; life; little; man; mary; meeting; miles; miss; miss anthony; moment; morning; mother; mrs; national; new; night; occasion; people; place; president; room; saw; school; sermon; shaw; speech; state; suffrage; susan; time; town; way; women; words; work; world; years; young cache: 354.txt plain text: 354.txt item: #13 of 26 id: 43502 author: Robins, Elizabeth title: Votes for Women: A Play in Three Acts date: None words: 29104 flesch: 96 summary: GEOFFREY STONOR _has appeared on the edge of the crowd, followed by_ JEAN _and_ LADY JOHN _in motor veils._) LADY JOHN (_glancing at_ JEAN _and taking alarm_). keywords: eyes; farn; geoffrey; great; jean; john; lady; lady john; levering; little; look; lord; man; miss; miss l.; mrs; people; stonor; time; voice; women; yes cache: 43502.txt plain text: 43502.txt item: #14 of 26 id: 5183 author: Wright, Almroth title: The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage date: None words: 27265 flesch: 52 summary: OR CORRECTIVES FOR THE DISCONTENT OF WOMAN What are the Suffragist's Grievances?--Economic and Physiological Difficulties of Woman--Intellectual Grievances of Suffragist and Corrective. APPENDIX LETTER ON MILITANT HYSTERIA PREFACE OR CORRECTIVES FOR THE DISCONTENTS OF WOMAN What are the Suffragist's Grievances?--Economic and Physiological Difficulties of Woman--Intellectual Grievances of Suffragist and Corrective. keywords: arguments; case; class; connexion; fact; female; force; justice; law; men; morality; physical; point; public; question; state; suffragist; view; violence; vote; woman; woman suffrage; work; world cache: 5183.txt plain text: 5183.txt item: #15 of 26 id: 53937 author: Héricourt, Madame d' title: A Woman's Philosophy of Woman; or, Woman affranchised. An answer to Michelet, Proudhon, Girardin, Legouvé, Comte, and other modern innovators date: None words: 85373 flesch: 63 summary: Maternity does not give to women rights over their children, but contributes, notwithstanding, to their emancipation; thus, in India, a woman who had borne sons could not be repudiated, and at Rome, a woman emerged from tutelage at maternity. A woman who comports herself voluntarily so as to captivate the hearts of many men, and leaves each to believe that she prefers him above all, is an unworthy coquette, who sins against Justice and Kindness: against Justice, inasmuch as she demands a sentiment for which she can make no return; as she acts towards others as she would think it unjust that others should act towards her; against Kindness, inasmuch as she risks causing suffering to sincere hearts and sacrificing their repose to a pleasurable impulse of vanity: such a woman, my child, is contemptible; she is a dangerous enemy of her sex; first, because she gives a bad opinion of it; next, because she is an enemy to the repose of other women; I know that you are too ingenuous, too true and too worthy to fear that you will fall into such errors. keywords: author; children; education; equality; facts; family; father; form; functions; general; good; heart; human; humanity; husband; individual; intellect; justice; know; labor; law; liberty; life; love; marriage; men; mother; nature; new; order; place; point; power; principle; progress; proudhon; question; reader; reason; respect; right; science; sex; sexes; society; species; state; system; time; use; wife; woman; work cache: 53937.txt plain text: 53937.txt item: #16 of 26 id: 59283 author: Holley, Marietta title: Josiah Allen on the Woman Question date: None words: 34143 flesch: 77 summary: Men will resoom their heaven-born station as rulers and protectors of the weaker sect, and females will sink down agin into hern, lookin' up to man as their nateral gardeens and masters. But I must say that all the while riled up as she wuz inside of her, she kep' knittin' away on my indigo blue sock, and kep' makin' honorable exceptions of good men and smart men. keywords: 'em; agin; bein; betsy; day; feelin; female; git; good; head; home; jest; josiah; kep; look; man; mind; petickulars; right; round; samantha; sect; sez; sez samantha; sime; simon; talk; things; think; thought; time; uncle; want; way; wife; wimmen; wimmen wuz; woman; work; wuz; wuzn't cache: 59283.txt plain text: 59283.txt item: #17 of 26 id: 59448 author: Bouten, Jacob title: Mary Wollstonecraft and the beginnings of female emancipation in France and England date: None words: 81354 flesch: 55 summary: She thus combined in her person two of the principal tendencies of the century: a strong religious spirit and an intense interest in literature, and both became important factors in her educational system, in which she aimed at reconciling the exigencies of the world with the demands of piety in forming society women who were devout Christians. Nor was their influence restricted to literature; in nearly every department of social life French women rose to ascendancy; and this, too, at a time when the subjugation of their sex in the other countries of Europe, and notably in England, was most complete. keywords: author; cause; century; character; chief; children; conversation; des; duties; education; eighteenth; england; equality; fact; female; feminist; france; french; girls; godwin; good; hannah; heart; husband; influence; interest; ladies; lady; les; letters; life; literature; love; making; man; mary; mary wollstonecraft; means; mind; mme; mme de; montagu; moral; mrs; nature; opinion; place; position; principles; reason; rights; rousseau; salons; scheme; sense; sex; sexes; social; society; spirit; state; subject; thought; time; views; virtue; way; women; world; years cache: 59448.txt plain text: 59448.txt item: #18 of 26 id: 7833 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha on the Woman Question date: None words: 29890 flesch: 80 summary: Good men and good women, each fillin' their different spears in life, but banded together for the overthrow of evil, the uplift of the race. Errents full of truth and justice and eternal right? He said he knew they wuz jest runnin' over with them qualities, but happy as it would make him to do 'em, he had to refuse owin' to the fur more important matters he had named, and the many, many other laws and preambles that he hadn't time to name over to me. keywords: agin; bein; children; day; errents; eyes; git; goin'; good; help; home; jest; josiah; justice; law; laws; lorinda; love; meetin; ort; parade; polly; right; round; serepta; sez; sot; things; thought; time; want; way; wimmen; woman; world; wuz cache: 7833.txt plain text: 7833.txt item: #19 of 26 id: 8642 author: Fuller, Margaret title: Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. date: None words: 111136 flesch: 74 summary: I could give instances that would startle the most vulgar and callous; but I will not, for the public opinion of their own sex is already against such men, and where cases of extreme tyranny are made known, there is private action in the wife's favor. Even with such men the practice was, often, widely different from the mental faith. keywords: beauty; believe; book; brother; care; character; child; children; circumstances; country; course; daughter; day; dear; earth; eyes; fair; faith; far; father; feeling; female; fine; form; french; friend; genius; girl; god; good; hand; harmony; head; heart; heaven; home; hope; house; human; husband; influence; intellectual; kind; lady; left; life; light; look; love; marriage; means; men; mind; mother; nature; need; new; people; picture; place; poor; power; present; relations; self; sex; sister; society; soul; sphere; spirit; state; subject; thee; things; thought; till; time; truth; vain; view; want; way; wife; wish; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 8642.txt plain text: 8642.txt item: #20 of 26 id: 9443 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 1 date: None words: 10485 flesch: 86 summary: And then again I thought, and it don't seem as if I can be mistaken, I most know that I heerd Josiah Allen mutter in a low voice, Dumb good works! sez Josiah, some wimmen don't care about anythin' but crazy work and back combs. keywords: allen; chapter; deacon; good; hain't; house; josiah; right; set; sez; time; wall; wimmen; wuz cache: 9443.txt plain text: 9443.txt item: #21 of 26 id: 9444 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 2 date: None words: 5498 flesch: 88 summary: I hadn't any bread in the house, but I had it a-risin', and I got two loaves out by dinner time. I couldn't turn him out jest at dinner time. keywords: 'em; good; jest; sez; time; wall; wuz cache: 9444.txt plain text: 9444.txt item: #22 of 26 id: 9445 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 3 date: None words: 12194 flesch: 86 summary: But, howsomever, Cephas wuz took sick, Sally Ann wuzn't able to do anything for their support, S. Annie wuz took down with the typhus, and so it happened the very day the monument wuz brought to the Loontown cemetery, Cephas Bodley's folks wuz carried to the county house, S. Annie, the children and all. Wall, sez Josiah, you dassent say she wouldn't. keywords: cephas; come; day; goin'; hain't; house; jest; josiah; sez; submit; thought; time; wall; way; wuz cache: 9445.txt plain text: 9445.txt item: #23 of 26 id: 9446 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 4 date: None words: 11237 flesch: 87 summary: And there the minister wuz, good old creeter, jest a-sufferin' for the necessities of life, and most half a year's salery due. The other girls married off, and left her to hum, and she had chances, so it wuz said, good ones, but she wouldn't leave her father and mother, who wuz gettin' old, and kinder bed-rid, and needed her. keywords: charnick; good; house; jenette; jest; joe; josiah; meetin; right; sez; time; trueman; wuz cache: 9446.txt plain text: 9446.txt item: #24 of 26 id: 9447 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 5 date: None words: 9567 flesch: 82 summary: She sez to Josiah: Why is it, Deacon Allen, that men deacons can carry on all sorts of business and still be deacons, while wimmen deacons are obleeged to give up all other business and devote themselves wholly to their work? It is on account of their minds, sez Josiah. It wuzn't proved, sez Josiah, a-turnin' the almanac over and lookin' at the advertisement on the back side on't. keywords: day; deacon; good; house; jest; josiah; meetin; right; sez; time; way; wimmen; work; wuz cache: 9447.txt plain text: 9447.txt item: #25 of 26 id: 9448 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 6 date: None words: 7129 flesch: 84 summary: Wuz you ever nervous? sez I. Never, sez he. Yes, sez I candidly, and in the sweet past they wuz necessary, sez I. In the sweet past, there wuzn't a clock nor a watch, the houses wuz fur apart, and they needed bells. keywords: bells; day; deacon; good; hain't; night; sez; sleep; time; wall; wuz cache: 9448.txt plain text: 9448.txt item: #26 of 26 id: 9449 author: Holley, Marietta title: Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 7 date: None words: 19472 flesch: 70 summary: My judgment and my conscience before the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church and the Restrictive Rules is that these women elected by these Electoral Conferences are in this General Conference. These women delegates must be put out of this General Conference if they are not granted the rights and privileges of members here. keywords: body; church; conference; constitution; delegates; delegation; general; house; law; lay; laymen; man; methodist; question; right; sister; vote; women; wuz cache: 9449.txt plain text: 9449.txt