Clarina Nichols: Frontier Crusader for Women's Rights

Biography & Memoir, Historical
Cover of the book Clarina Nichols: Frontier Crusader for Women's Rights by Diane Eickhoff, Quindaro Press
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Author: Diane Eickhoff ISBN: 9780966925890
Publisher: Quindaro Press Publication: June 25, 2016
Imprint: Smashwords Edition Language: English
Author: Diane Eickhoff
ISBN: 9780966925890
Publisher: Quindaro Press
Publication: June 25, 2016
Imprint: Smashwords Edition
Language: English

Everyone knows about the “Votes for Women” campaign that led to the 19th Amendment in 1920. Few know just how long the struggle really was. Decades earlier, brave women began breaking the taboo of remaining silent at gatherings that included men. They began signing their names to petitions, flexing political muscle long before they had the vote. They wrote millions of words and published some of the most influential books and journals of their day. No one represents this early struggle — the small triumphs and discouraging setbacks — better than Clarina Howard Nichols (1810–1885), the Vermont newspaper publisher whose speeches made a powerful case for equality.

Nichols, herself the victim of a failed marriage, was a magnet to abused and mistreated women and was their advocate at a time when her sex was just beginning to speak up. And when she felt progress wasn’t coming soon enough, she moved west, to Bleeding Kansas, where she would make history and show the world that feminism could thrive on the frontier.

Diane Eickhoff, who first wrote Nichols’ biography in 2006 as Revolutionary Heart, has reimagined her story for all ages. Booklist declared, “The name Clarina Nichols deserves to be placed next to those of such luminaries as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” and readers of this inspiring historical biography will heartily agree.

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Everyone knows about the “Votes for Women” campaign that led to the 19th Amendment in 1920. Few know just how long the struggle really was. Decades earlier, brave women began breaking the taboo of remaining silent at gatherings that included men. They began signing their names to petitions, flexing political muscle long before they had the vote. They wrote millions of words and published some of the most influential books and journals of their day. No one represents this early struggle — the small triumphs and discouraging setbacks — better than Clarina Howard Nichols (1810–1885), the Vermont newspaper publisher whose speeches made a powerful case for equality.

Nichols, herself the victim of a failed marriage, was a magnet to abused and mistreated women and was their advocate at a time when her sex was just beginning to speak up. And when she felt progress wasn’t coming soon enough, she moved west, to Bleeding Kansas, where she would make history and show the world that feminism could thrive on the frontier.

Diane Eickhoff, who first wrote Nichols’ biography in 2006 as Revolutionary Heart, has reimagined her story for all ages. Booklist declared, “The name Clarina Nichols deserves to be placed next to those of such luminaries as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” and readers of this inspiring historical biography will heartily agree.

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