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A review by claudiaswisher
You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? by Jean Fritz
4.0
Seemed a timely choice right now...Jean Fritz writes strong, informative, lively, interesting nonfiction and biography. She chooses subjects and events carefully and incorporates her research so that young readers have a sense of immediacy.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton...one of the driving forces for women's suffrage and abolition. In her mind, the oppression of African Americans and women was linked...connected.
She learned early on that women had precious few rights in the world and she dedicated her life to changing that. At a cost. She moved faster and farther than her husband wanted her to, and they lived apart while still a couple for most of their marriage. She gave birth to eight children, and was often away lecturing, and was not the primary caregiver. Fritz does not shy away from these facts as she paints this driving woman who was THERE...
Lucretia Mott, Susan Anthony...they're here too. One a mentor, one a soldier-in-arms.
By her death, at least three states granted women the right to vote, and the the Nineteenth Amendment would be ratified afterwards. She changed a nation with her feisty mouth and pen. Her sacrifices must never be taken for granted as we go to the polls next week. We must show up for Lizzy and Susan and Lucretia.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton...one of the driving forces for women's suffrage and abolition. In her mind, the oppression of African Americans and women was linked...connected.
She learned early on that women had precious few rights in the world and she dedicated her life to changing that. At a cost. She moved faster and farther than her husband wanted her to, and they lived apart while still a couple for most of their marriage. She gave birth to eight children, and was often away lecturing, and was not the primary caregiver. Fritz does not shy away from these facts as she paints this driving woman who was THERE...
Lucretia Mott, Susan Anthony...they're here too. One a mentor, one a soldier-in-arms.
By her death, at least three states granted women the right to vote, and the the Nineteenth Amendment would be ratified afterwards. She changed a nation with her feisty mouth and pen. Her sacrifices must never be taken for granted as we go to the polls next week. We must show up for Lizzy and Susan and Lucretia.