A Strong-Minded Woman
The Life of Mary A. Livermore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10042883 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sylvia D Hoffert (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 881-882 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/4486478 |
| OpenAlex | W2313363733 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Anna Howard Shaw, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul have long been considered the “Queen Bees” of the suffrage movement. But their prominence and success depended on the hard work of a second tier of feminists, all of whom dedicated a portion of their lives to promoting the advancement of women. Mary A. Livermore was a member of this second group. Livermore was born in 1820. Her father was a laborer who instilled in her a strong sense of social responsibility and a respect for education. In an effort to claim her independence, she left her family in Massachusetts in 1839 to become a governess for the children of James Jones and Helen Jones, who owned a plantation in southern Virginia. Her sojourn in the slave South was short. She returned north in 1842 to begin working as a teacher in Duxbury, Massachusetts. There she became active in the temperance movement and, in 1845, married Daniel Parker Livermore, a Universalist minister. Daniel was a loving and supportive husband. Between 1845 and 1854, she bore three daughters and spent much of her free time performing the duties expected of a minister's wife. By 1859, the Livermores were living in Chicago where she and her husband edited the New Covenant, a weekly paper devoted to religion and social reform
Covenant · Independence (probability theory · Political science · Politics · Queen (butterfly · Sociology · Suffrage · Wife · Academic Freedom and Politics · American History and Culture · History · Law
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2018 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |