Writing Out My Heart: Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96 Hardcover - 1995
by Carolyn Gifford (Editor)
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The journal of Frances E. Willard had been hidden away in a cupboard at the national headquarters of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and its importance eluded Willard's biographers. Writing Out My Heart publishes for the first time substantial portions of the forty-nine volumes rediscovered in 1982, opening a window on the remarkable inner life of this great public figure and casting her in a new light. No other female political leader of the period left a private record like this. Written during her teens, twenties, and fifties, the journal documents the creation of Frances Willard's self. At the same time, it often reads like a good novel. It stands as one of the most explicit and painful records in the nineteenth century of one woman's coming to terms with her love for women in a heterosexual world. Other sections reveal what impelled Willard to reform - the nature and depth of the religious dimension of her life - a dimension not yet adequately explored by any biographer. Here we see her growing commitment to the "cause of woman". The volumes written in her late middle age give insight into the years when, world famous, she was part of the transatlantic network of reform, battling ill health, dealing with controversy in the WCTU, and grieving for her mother, a lifelong figure of emotional support. This finale concludes one of the most fascinating of the journal's themes: the nineteenth-century confrontation with sickness and death.
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- Title Writing Out My Heart: Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96
- Author Carolyn Gifford (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 510
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Illinois Press, Urbana
- Date August 1, 1995
- Features Annotated
- ISBN 9780252021398 / 0252021398
- Weight 1.94 lbs (0.88 kg)
- Dimensions 9.35 x 6.33 x 1.36 in (23.75 x 16.08 x 3.45 cm)
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- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Library of Congress subjects Women - Suffrage - United States, Women social reformers - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94043878
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Library Journal, 11/01/1995, Page 91
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