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Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott (Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History) Hardcover – January 9, 2002

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This landmark volume collects Lucretia Mott's correspondence for the first time, highlighting the length and breadth of her work as an activist dedicated to reform of almost every kind and providing an intimate glimpse of her family life. 

Mott’s achievements left a mark on reform movements from abolition to women's rights. The letters cover her work in these causes as well as her founding of key antislavery organizations; her friendships with Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth; her efforts to bring Quakers into the abolitionist movement; and her part in organizing the 1848 Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention. Other correspondence cover her fifty-six-year marriage, the five children she raised to adulthood, and informal insights and news with and about her cherished family. 

An invaluable resource, Selected Letters of Lucretia Coffin Mott reveals the incisive mind, sense of mission, and level-headed personality that made this extraordinary figure a major force in nineteenth-century American life.

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    University of Illinois Press
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    January 9, 2002
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    9.3 x 6.37 x 1.61 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0252026748
  7. ISBN-13
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"This admirably edited and handsomely published book is a great contribution to printed scholarly resources for 19th-century history. Lucretia Mott was engaged in several of the central social and political movements of that century, and her correspondence opens views into them, especially abolition, women's rights, and religion and Quakerism. But one will also find comments on domestic life and childrearing, public events, pacifism, and Indian rights. . . . Palmer included as much scholarly apparatus as a reader could want."--Choice

"This scrupulously annotated volume makes widely available for the first time the correspondence of the nineteenth-century Quaker activist who was dedicated to numerous reform movements, including temperance, peace, equal rights, woman suffrage, nonresistance, and the abolition of slavery."--Documentary Editing

"While scholars will rejoice in this volume, lay readers, too, will find the letters entertaining and inspiring. Beverly Palmer has done the Religious Society of Friends a real service."--Friends Journal

"Finally, a chance to see the full range of ideas, concerns, words of Lucretia Mott, the first foremother of the U.S. feminist movement. Beverly Palmer has performed an enormous service, for Lucretia Mott's many appreciators and for many others, who will now know the historical significance of this great "woman."--Ellen Carol DuBois, editor of The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches

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"Finally, a chance to see the full range of ideas, concerns, words of Lucretia Mott, the first foremother of the U.S. feminist movement. Beverly Palmer has performed an enormous service, for Lucretia Mott's many appreciators and for many others, who will now know the historical significance of this great woman." -- Ellen Carol DuBois, editor of The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader: Correspondence, Writings, Speeches

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Illinois Press; Annotated edition (January 9, 2002)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 640 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0252026748
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0252026744
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.24 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.3 x 6.37 x 1.61 inches
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Laura L. Mays Hoopes
5.0 out of 5 stars Details of life for a woman to whom we owe our voting ability
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2006
Lucretia Mott, along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and many others worked hard to get the vote for women. But reading this carefully edited volume of her letters will give you another view of her life: it was very quotidian. Family issues were a great concern, and she was the clerk of the females in her Quaker congregation. She cared deeply about slavery as well as about suffrage; these were her major issues but fairness in all things could have been her watchword.

Beverly Palmer introduces us to her in an opening essay, and writes helpful clues as to the meaining of each section of letters, in addition to the complete and easy-to-understand footnotes, which bring out the context for each letter. She leaves center stage to Lucretia Mott, while giving us the tools we need to appreciate what she accomplished.

At the time when the bandwagon for women's voting was getting rolling, her family life was heavily impacted and you can read her plaintive requests that the meetings far afield not be held so often, but then when others scheduled them anyway, her assurances that yes, she would attend and had written to others to make sure they'd be there too.

Susan B. Anthony was such a dedicated person that she never married and had no children, and she saw how family life was drawing her colleagues in the fight out of the fray so she protested when each one became pregnant yet again. But Lucretia Mott did not; she was always supportive of both Susan (whom she offered to send some special tea to help her relax) and the married women with children who were also leading the movement. She undertook to write to influential men urging their support for the cause too. Reading these letters will give anyone a much clearer sense of what these women were up against.

Reading a biography of Mott will provide some insights, but I would argue that you'll understand her a lot better by reading her own words. Very worthwhile book!
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