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Revolutionary Heart: The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights
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About Revolutionary Heart: The Life Of Clarina Nichols
Product Description Through divorce, death and poverty, a 19th-century newspaper editor never stopped fighting for suffrage. You don't know the whole story of America's march to equality until you've met Clarina Nichols. Driven by her own knowledge of suffering and mistreatment, Clarina Nichols (1810-1885) left the comforts of her Vermont home and moved to Bleeding Kansas, where she helped shape the new Constitution that gave women unprecedented rights. Kansas women obtained full suffrage years before any state in the East, thanks to this remarkable pioneer. For the first time, Nichols's story comes alive thanks to Diane Eickhoff, whose seven-year quest to collect her scattered writings has yielded a richer understanding of this overlooked time in women's history. Booklist's reviewer wrote, "The name Clarina Nichols deserves to be placed next to those of such luminaries as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton." Willa Cather Award winner, ForeWord's Book of the Year in Biography. From Publishers Weekly Clarina Nichols's name may not spring to mind as quickly as Susan B. Anthony's when people think about women's suffrage, but Nichols's work on the lecture circuit and as a newspaper columnist helped shape public opinion and pave the way for the passage of the 19th amendment. This fine biography takes advantage of newly discovered documentation of Nichols's life, which she, to her later regret, did not preserve for posterity in memoirs. After escaping a troubled early marriage, Nichols married a newspaper publisher in Vermont and soon took over the business. From its pages she argued for women's rights, abolition and temperance-the other great movements of her era-and her articles won her notice and a place in Anthony's circle. Despite Nichols's success as a speaker and public figure in the East, she felt the pull of the frontier and took her family to Kansas and later California, where her story takes on the less unique flavor of the pioneer tale. Eickhoff writes fluently, but also liberally quotes Nichols's columns and letters, allowing readers to get a taste of her eloquence as well as her progressive views. Though gaps in her story remain and what is known is not necessarily the stuff of legend, readers interested in history and women's rights will be glad to have learned about Nichols, a charismatic figure who had fallen out of history's sight for so long. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Booklist In the pantheon of pioneers of the early feminist movement, the name Clarina Nichols deserves to be placed next to those of such luminaries as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, yet most history books fail to mention the contributions of this indefatigable worker for the cause of women's rights, especially those of married women. At a time when they were legally considered nonexistent, women who were widowed or divorced frequently found themselves denied of all rights and access to property, income, and even their own children. Having suffered such indignities firsthand, Nichols overcame her own tragedies to become an eloquent journalist and passionate public speaker on issues of temperance and abolition as well as women's rights--one who could captivate audiences with true-life anecdotes, quick-witted arguments, and fervent pleas for justice. Filled with excerpts from Nichols' own writings, Eickhoff's exhaustive research and extensive scholarship results in a sweeping biography of this little-known but undeniably courageous champion of human rights. Carol Haggas Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Review "Diane Eickhoff has written a very readable history of the life of one of America's unsung heroines." -- Ambassador Madeleine May Kunin, former governor of Vermont"Diane Eickhoff's biography of Nichols is a thorough and illuminating treatment of one of the most instrumental and underappreciated of A
