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Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and the battle for a new South
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Title
Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and the battle for a new South / Melba Porter Hay ; foreword by Marjorie Julian Spruill.
ISBN
9780813125329 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813125324 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2009.
Physical Description
xiv, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 11, 2009
Series
Topics in Kentucky history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-334) and index.
Contents
"One great honored name," 1872-1889
"A thunder-bolt out of a clear sky," 1890-1896
"An unholy interest in reforming others," 1897-1900
"Our hope lies in the children," 1901-1904
"Whatever a woman can do
in the long run she will do," 1905-1907
"Educational advance and school suffrage for women go hand in hand," 1908-1911
"Among the most brilliant advocates of votes for women in this country," 1912-1913
"An able speaker, a brilliant woman," 1914-1915
"I cannot keep her from doing more than she ought to do," 1916-1918
Kentucky's "most distinguished woman citizen," 1919-1920
Epilogue: "She belonged to Kentucky."
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