Join BookitisSave favorites, build lists, and follow creators.

You want women to vote, Lizzie Stanton?

Work detail

Bookitis Pick
Cover for You want women to vote, Lizzie Stanton?
YW
Image source: Open Library
Jean FritzDyanne Disalvo-RyanFirst published 19956 editions

Who says women shouldn't speak in public? And why can't they vote? These are questions Elizabeth Cady Stanton grew up asking herself. Her father believed that girls didn't count as much as boys, and her own husband once got so embarrassed when she spoke at a convention that he left town. Luckily Lizzie wasn't one to let society stop her from fighting for equality for everyone. And though she didn't live long enough to see women get to vote, our entire country benefited from her fight for women's rights. "Fritz?imparts not just a sense of Stanton's accomplishments but a picture of the greater society Stanton strove to change?.Highly entertaining and enlightening." — Publishers Weekly (starred review) "This objective depiction of AStanton's? life and times?makes readers feel invested in her struggle." — School Library Journal (starred review) "An accessible, fascinating portrait." — The

Overview

Shared work-level identity and catalog context.

First publish date 19952 credited authorsSearch language english

Bookitis keeps work pages focused on the shared book identity and the editions that actually belong to it. Unrelated books should not appear here as primary content.

Contributors

People credited with this work in the active catalog.

  • Jean Fritz

    Author profile in the active Bookitis catalog

    Open Author
  • Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan

    Author profile in the active Bookitis catalog

    Open Author

Editions

Publication-specific versions linked to this work only.