Loving Warriors

By Leslie Wheeler (editor),

Book cover of Loving Warriors: Selected Letters of Lucy Stone and Henry B. Blackwell, 1853 to 1893

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A collection of the letters of feminist and abolitionist Lucy Stone and her husband Henry B. Blackwell provides a fascinating look at an unusual marriage and information on life in Victorian America

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In 1853, hardware store owner Henry Blackwell proposed marriage to a woman he barely knew: Lucy Stone, who had become prominent as a speaker for the abolitionist and women’s rights movements. Not surprisingly, Lucy refused, but she allowed her younger suitor to write to her, and this collection of letters, spanning the idealistic pair’s courtship and eventual marriage, is the result.

I found it to be a moving portrait of a couple falling in love and managing to stay in love despite the usual ups and downs of wedlock and their quite different personalities. And did you know that Lucy…

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