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Article: Susan B. Anthony: a Biography of a Singular Feminist. (book reviews)
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- National Forum
- Article date:
- January 1, 1990
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Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist.
KATHLEEN BARRY.
In the first biography of Susan B. Anthony written in the past thirty years, Kathleen Barry weaves of story of choices--a story of a woman of common background whose life reflected uncommon behaviors and decisions in a nineteenth-century world. This is a richly written, carefully researched, and interestingly nuanced study of the woman who contemporaries sometimes called a "strident spinster" and at other times recognized as a selfless and passionate radical, the beloved matriarch of the American women's movement.
The general framework of Susan B. Anthony's life is well-known to ...