You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton? - Hardcover

Jean Fritz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399227865 ISBN 13: 9780399227868

Publisher: Putnam Juvenile, 1995

Synopsis

A lively portrait of the unconventional leader of the women's suffrage movement follows Lizzie Stanton's career from the 1848 Women's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, through her successful writing and lecturing tours, to her struggle for women's rights.

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About the Author:

Acclaimed biographer, Jean Fritz, was born in China where she lived until the age of thirteen. She tells her story in Homesick, My Own Story, a Newbery Honor Book.      Ms Fritz is the author of forty-five books for children and young people. Many center on historical American figures, gaining her a reputation as the premier author of biographies for children and young people.      Among the prestigious awards Ms. Fritz has garnered are: a medal from the National Endowment for the Humanities, a May Hill Arbuthnot Lecture, a Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, an American Book Award, a Christopher Award, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Non-Fiction Award, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and many ALA Notable Books of the Year, School Library Journal Best Books of the Year, and ALA Booklist Editors’ Choice Awards.   

From Booklist:

Gr. 4^-7. This is Fritz at her ebullient best, writing a historical biography that weaves together the life of a spirited leader and the fight for her cause. In this case, the fight is for women's suffrage. Without fictionalization, Fritz re-creates Stanton's decisive, impatient, outspoken personality. "Elizabeth had never heard of anything so ridiculous" is a constant refrain from Stanton's childhood on through her domestic life and her long years of politics. The friendship between Stanton and the suffragist leader Susan B. Anthony is drawn with immediacy and zest, their closeness and their arguments, their work together and their failures. Stanton fought with the abolitionists who wanted to separate black rights and women's suffrage. She "lit into" the churches for being so backward. Yet there's no caricature; running throughout is a restrained sense of her sorrow that she could never please her father because she was not a boy. The description of her last speech in 1892 is an eloquent fusion of the personal and the political: "In the end, she said, everybody, men and women, were alone. They were responsible for themselves; no one could represent them." As usual, Fritz provides a bibliography but no further documentation of sources. Illustrations by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan not seen in galley. Hazel Rochman

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0399227865
• ISBN 13: 9780399227868
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96
• Illustrator: DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan