Table of Contents

Dedication Introduction Abbreviations Jane Addams Susan B. Anthony Clara Barton Belva Bennett Lockwood Clara Bewick Colby Antoinette Brown Blackwell Elizabeth Cady Stanton Victoria Claflin Woodhull Laura Clay Mary Clyens Lease Lucretia Coffin Mott Voltairine de Cleyre Anna E. Dickinson Mary Dreier Robins Rosa Fassel Sonneschein Emma Goldman Angelina Grimké Weld Sarah M. Grimké Mary Harris "Mother" Jones Emma Hart Willard Clarina Howard Nichols Helen Jackson Gougar Matilda Joslyn Gage Florence Kelley Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis Carrie Lane Chapman Catt Maria W. Miller Stewart Ernestine Potowski Rose Kate Richards O'Hare Deborah Sampson Gannett Abigail Scott Duniway Anna Howard Shaw Sojourner Truth Julia Ward Howe Catharine Waugh McCulloch Ida B. Wells Barnett Frances E. Willard Contributors Index

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This biographical dictionary, the first of two companion volumes, gives new recognition to early women orators--those who spoke despite efforts to silence them.

About the Author

KARLYN KOHRS CAMPBELL is Professor in the Department of Speech-Communication at the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis St. Paul. She is the author of Man Cannot Speak for Her, Vol. I: A Critical Analysis of Early Feminist Rhetoric and Vol. II: Key Texts of the Early Feminists (Greenwood, 1989).

Reviews

?Campbell is to be credited with tackling a relatively new research area. . . . Women Public Speakers is a recommended purchase for college and research libraries and large public libraries because of the information it gives on them as orators.?-Reference Books Bulletin

?Essays are well researched and well written. Useful for undergraduate or graduate students of communication, this sourcebook is an excellent tool for anyone interested in women's role in US history.?-Choice

?As excellent as the individual rhetorical "portraits" are, I have already found this book indispensable because of the closing structure of each essay. A volume written for researchers by researchers, ... I recommend that this 2-volume set be placed at the top of every acquisition list. Certainly, these will be the most thumbed through and loaned out books in your own office. Karlyn Campbell says in her introduction, "Happily, scholarship is never finished; these volumes will have achieved their end if they stimulate the study of other women rhetors and encourage further study of the women described in the pages that follow." This book has easily achieved its aim.?- Quarterly Journal of Speech

"Campbell is to be credited with tackling a relatively new research area. . . . Women Public Speakers is a recommended purchase for college and research libraries and large public libraries because of the information it gives on them as orators."-Reference Books Bulletin

"Essays are well researched and well written. Useful for undergraduate or graduate students of communication, this sourcebook is an excellent tool for anyone interested in women's role in US history."-Choice

"As excellent as the individual rhetorical "portraits" are, I have already found this book indispensable because of the closing structure of each essay. A volume written for researchers by researchers, ... I recommend that this 2-volume set be placed at the top of every acquisition list. Certainly, these will be the most thumbed through and loaned out books in your own office. Karlyn Campbell says in her introduction, "Happily, scholarship is never finished; these volumes will have achieved their end if they stimulate the study of other women rhetors and encourage further study of the women described in the pages that follow." This book has easily achieved its aim."- Quarterly Journal of Speech