A Strong-Minded Woman: The Life of Mary Livermore

by Wendy Hamand Venet

When Mary Livermore died in 1905 at age 84, a Boston newspaper praised her as "America's foremost woman." A leading figure in the struggle for woman's rights as well as in the temperance movement, she was as widely recognized during her lifetime as Susan B. Anthony, and for a time the most popular and highly paid female orator in the country. Yet aside from Civil War historians familiar with her service as a wartime nurse, few today remember...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558495134
• ISBN13: 9781558495135
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher