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The life and times of Elizabeth Upham Yates : a crusader for women's suffrage, temperance, and missionary work / Shannon M. Risk.

"This biography chronicles the life of Elizabeth Upham Yates who fostered a kind of "American dream" for the single, educated woman in the industrial era. She served as a missionary to China and then blazed women's suffrage and temperance campaign trails for thirty years as the p...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Risk, Shannon (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]
Subjects:
Yates, Elizabeth U. > (Elizabeth Upham), > 1857-
Women social reformers > United States > Biography.
Suffragists > United States > Biography.
Suffragists.
Women social reformers.
United States.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Life of Elizabeth Upham Yates
  • Growing Up in Maine, 1857
  • 1880: Steeped in Methodism
  • Missionary, 1880
  • 1885: Yates' Role in a Modernizing China
  • A New Path, 1885-1896: Lecturing for Temperance and Women's Suffrage
  • In Between the Nation and Maine, 1896-1908: Balancing Home and National Work
  • "The Last General of Rhode Island," 1909-1920: Leading the Final Suffrage Effort
  • Victory and Defeat, 1920: The Nineteenth Amendment and Running for Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island
  • Towards the Setting Sun, 1920-1942: Battling Disability in Trying Times.

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