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“Are Women People?” The Poetry of Alice Duer Miller
Alice Duer Miller. "Are Women People?" columns. New York Tribune. 1914-1917.
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Paper, Book-Non-Fiction, Newspapers, Web-based
“Are women people?” It’s a question you may have seen floating around the Internet lately, an absurd line calling attention to patriarchy, sexism and the dehumanization of women. But the line […] Read More
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Pro-Suffrage Illustration: The Awakening, Puck 1915
Henry Mayer. "The Awakening." Puck, February 20, 1915.
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Cartoons, Illustration
Henry “Hy” Mayer’s pro-suffrage illustration first appeared as a two-page spread in Puck magazine’s suffrage issue, published February 20, 1915. The German-born Mayer was Puck’s head cartoonist at the time. This description is an […] Read More
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Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and US Modernism
Mary Chapman. Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and US Modernism. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Academic
Google Books has significant excerpts of this book, which won the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Book Award in 2015; the Canadian Association of American Studies […] Read More
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The Sturdy Oak: A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors
Various authors. The Sturdy Oak: A Composite Novel of American Politics by Fourteen American Authors. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1917. (Collier's serial, 1916)
Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Fiction, Book-Novel, Magazines, Radio/Audio
This unusual work was first serialized by Collier’s Magazine in 1916 and then as a novel by Henry Holt & Company in 1917. Fourteen prominent authors each contributed a chapter, […] Read More