Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and the battle for a new South /

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Author / Creator:Hay, Melba Porter, 1949-
Imprint:Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2009.
Description:xiv, 353 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Topics in Kentucky history
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7703666
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ISBN:9780813125329 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813125324 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-334) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. "One great honored name," 1872-1889
  • 2. "A thunder-bolt out of a clear sky," 1890-1896
  • 3. "An unholy interest in reforming others," 1897-1900
  • 4. "Our hope lies in the children," 1901-1904
  • 5. "Whatever a woman can do ... in the long run she will do," 1905-1907
  • 6. "Educational advance and school suffrage for women go hand in hand," 1908-1911
  • 7. "Among the most brilliant advocates of votes for women in this country," 1912-1913
  • 8. "An able speaker, a brilliant woman," 1914-1915
  • 9. "I cannot keep her from doing more than she ought to do," 1916-1918
  • 10. Kentucky's "most distinguished woman citizen," 1919-1920
  • Epilogue: "She belonged to Kentucky"
  • Appendix: Selections from Articles and Speeches of Madeline McDowell Breckinridge
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index