In this, the first biography of Alice Henry (1857-1943), Diane Kirkby presents us with an intelligent, formidable woman of great energy who was a pioneer in both the Australian and American labor movements early in this century and a feminist who fought for the rights of millions of women in both countries. Alice Henry The Power of Pen and Voice is sympathetically written and it is clear that in the course of the author's meticulous research she has developed great warmth for her subject and the friends who were central to her life, women such as the Australian writer Stella Miles Franklin, author of My Brilliant Career, who supported Alice Henry throughout her difficult old age. While empathizing with Alice Henry, readers can increase their understanding of a critical period in history, when progressive networks were far more international than might be expected and women played a central role in the creation of the welfare state.
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"With insight, skill, and empathy, Kirkby contextualizes the life of a representative woman of the educated middle class who embraced the need to be self-supporting....In recovering Henry's 'industrial feminism,' Kirkby has made a major contribution to the debate over what constituted early twentieth-century feminism." The Journal of American History
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In this, the first biography of Alice Henry (1857-1943), Diane Kirkby presents us with an intelligent, formidable woman of great energy who was a pioneer in both the Australian and American labour movements and a feminist who fought for the rights of millions of women in both countries.
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On a winter's day in January 1906 a middle-aged Australian, characteristically clutching an oversized handbag, stepped off a boat in New York harbor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
trade union woman, labor reformism, tralian women, industrial legislation, women trade unionists, publicity pamphlet, labor reformers, wages boards, male unionists, suffrage struggle, woman movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Alice Henry, Stella Franklin, Margaret Dreier Robins, United States, Catherine Spence, Miss Henry, Elisabeth Christman, New York, Union Labor Advocate, Mary Dreier, Margaret Robins, Maud Swartz, Nettie Palmer, Rose Schneiderman, New South Wales, Agnes Nestor, Leonora O'Reilly, Vida Goldstein, New Zealand, Mary Anderson, Isabel Newsham, Jane Addams, Bryn Mawr, Catherine Helen Spence, Mabel Leslie New!
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On a winter's day in January 1906 a middle-aged Australian, characteristically clutching an oversized handbag, stepped off a boat in New York harbor. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
trade union woman, labor reformism, tralian women, industrial legislation, women trade unionists, publicity pamphlet, labor reformers, wages boards, male unionists, suffrage struggle, woman movement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Alice Henry, Stella Franklin, Margaret Dreier Robins, United States, Catherine Spence, Miss Henry, Elisabeth Christman, New York, Union Labor Advocate, Mary Dreier, Margaret Robins, Maud Swartz, Nettie Palmer, Rose Schneiderman, New South Wales, Agnes Nestor, Leonora O'Reilly, Vida Goldstein, New Zealand, Mary Anderson, Isabel Newsham, Jane Addams, Bryn Mawr, Catherine Helen Spence, Mabel Leslie New!
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- The Trade Union Woman by Alice Henry on 10 pages
- Fabian Socialism by A. M. McBriar on 5 pages
- Spearheads for Reform:The Social Settlements & the Progressive Movement, 1890 to 1914 by Allen F. Davis in Front Matter, page 88, and Back Matter
- Spearheads for Reform: Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement, 1890-1914 (The Urban Life in America) by Allen F. Davis in Front Matter, page 88, and Back Matter
- New Zealand: Yesterday and today by Margaret Mahy on page 202, page 203, and Back Matter
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- To Try Her Fortune in London: Australian Women, Colonialism, and Modernity by Angela Woollacott in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Oxford Companion to Australian History by Graeme Davison on page 310
- The Necessity of Organization: Mary Kenney OOSullivan and Trade Unionism for Women, 1892-1912 (Garland Studies in the History of American Labor) by Kathleen B. Nutter on page 23
- Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader in US Women's History by Vicki L. Ruiz on page 289
- Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States by Eileen Boris in Front Matter
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