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Anchor Text: "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

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Anchor Text: "Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen

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Brian C. Southam Publisher, Athlone Press, London. Author of Jane Austen’s Literary Manuscripts; Tennyson; and others.

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Jane Austen | Biography, Books, Movies, & Facts

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Jane Austen was an English writer who first gave the novel its distinctly modern character through her treatment of ordinary people in everyday life. Her novels defined the era’s novel of manners, but they also became timeless classics that remained critical and popular successes for over two centur…

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Setting and Time: Hertfordshire and Derbyshire in 1811 and 1812

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Setting and Time: Hertfordshire and Derbyshire in 1811 and 1812

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Nonfiction Text: "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by Mary Wollstonecraft

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Nonfiction Text: "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" by Mary Wollstonecraft

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These may be termed utopian dreams. - Thanks to that Being who impressed them on my soul, and gave me sufficient strength of mind to dare to exert my own reason, till, becoming dependent only on him for the support of my virtue, I view, with indignation, the mistaken notions that enslave my sex. I...

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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | Online Library of Liberty

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Wollstonecraft first defended the rights of men in response to Burke's pamphlet on the French Revolution, then turned to the rights of woman a couple of years later. It is one of the key texts of modern feminist thought.

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In 1896, Martha Hughes Cannon ran for state senate against her polygamist husband, and won! But becoming America's first female state senator was only one chapter of Cannon's story. A whirlwind of triumph and heartbreak dominated her life: wagon trains, Victorian medicine, the suffrage movement, evading federal prosecution, she lived it all!

Our guest is Rebekah Clark, author of Thinking Women: A Timeline of Suffrage in Utah

Read Martha Hughes Cannon's Speech to the Senate Judiciary Committee, or her Senate Health Bill (including rules on quarantine and school safety!) Or read her 1885 letter to a friend which discusses her fears of being forced to testify before a grand jury about her knowledge of polygamous marriages.

Visit the Better Days 2020 website for more information on women's suffrage in Utah. There you can also download a free Martha Hughes Cannon coloring page!

The Exponent II Magazine continues the work of the original Women's Exponent today. (One of the pieces Olivia wrote for them years ago is here.)

Rebekah Clark is co-author of the recently-released book Thinking Women: A Timeline of Suffrage in Utah. She holds a law degree from the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University and studied as a visiting student at Harvard Law School. She graduated with a degree in American History and Literature from Harvard University, where her honors thesis focused on Utah women's activism in the national suffrage movement. Her work has appeared in journals such as the Utah State Historical Quarterly, Journal of Mormon History, BYU Studies, Pioneer Magazine, and BYU Law Review and in podcasts by the National Conference of State Legislatures, Zion Art Society, Church News, and the Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. She serves on the board of the Mormon Women's History Initiative Team and currently works as the Historical Research Associate at Better Days, a nonprofit public history organization dedicated to expanding education about Utah women's history.

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THE SUFFRAGIST SENATOR Martha Hughes Cannon - What'shername

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In 1896, Dr. Martha Hughes Cannon ran for the Utah State Senate against her husband, and won! But that's only the beginning of her story...

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Art Connection: "They have a cheek I've never been asked" by Emily Ford

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Art Connection: "They have a cheek I've never been asked" by Emily Ford

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This pro-suffrage poster was designed by Emily Ford and published by the Artists' Suffrage League. The image refers to the oppressive situation of powerless women employed in factories as 'sweated labour'. A major aim of the suffrage movement was to improve the conditions of working-class women by achieving representation for them in parliament and trade unions. Without the vote women had no influence in the passing of laws that affected their lives and work.

Formed in 1907, the Artists' Suffrage League produced posters, postcards and other visual material to promote the cause of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies.

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Poster, They have a cheek I've never been asked - Ford, Emily and Artists' Suffrage League - Google Arts & Culture

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This pro-suffrage poster was designed by Emily Ford and published by the Artists' Suffrage League. The image refers to the oppressive situation of powerles...

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Poem: "We As Women" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Poem: "We As Women" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Fashionable women in luxurious homes,
With men to feed them, clothe them, pay their bills,
Bow, doff the hat, and fetch the handkerchief;
Hostess or guest; and always so supplied
With graceful deference and courtesy;
Surrounded by their horses, servants, dogs-
These tell us they have all the rights they want.

Successful women who have won their way
Alone, with strength of their unaided arm,
Or helped by friends, or softly climbing up
By the sweet aid of "woman's influence";
Successful any way, and caring naught
For any other woman's unsuccess-
These tell us they have all the rights they want.

Religious women of the feebler sort-
Not the religion of a righteous world,
A free, enlightened, upward-reaching world,
But the religion that considers life
As something to back out of !- whose ideal
Is to renounce, submit, and sacrifice.
Counting on being patted on the head
And given a high chair when they get to heaven-
These tell us they have all the rights they want.

Ignorant women-college bred sometimes,
But ignorant of life's realities
And principles of righteous government,
And how the privileges they enjoy
Were won with blood and tears by those before-
Those they condemn, whose ways they now oppose;
Saying, "Why not let well enough alone?"
Our world is very pleasant as it is"-
These tell us they have all the rights they want.

And selfish women-pigs in petticoats-
Rich, poor, wise, unwise, top or bottom round,
But all sublimely innocent of thought,
And guiltless of ambition, save the one
Deep, voiceless aspiration-to be fed!
These have no use for rights or duties more.
Duties today are more than they can meet,
And law insures their right to clothes and food-
These tell us they have all the rights they want.

And, more's the pity, some good women too;
Good, conscientious women with ideas;
Who think-or think they think-that woman's cause
Is best advanced by letting it alone;
That she somehow is not a human thing,
And not to be helped on by human means,
Just added to humanity-an "L"-
A wing, a branch, an extra, not mankind-
These tell us they have all the rights they want.

And out of these has come a monstrous thing,
A strange, down-sucking whirlpool of disgrace,
Women uniting against womanhood,
And using that great name to hide their sin!
Vain are their words as that old king's command
Who set his will against the rising tide.
But who shall measure the historic shame
Of these poor traitors-traitors are they all-
To great Democracy and Womanhood!

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There's a cry in the air about us-We hear it, before, behind-Of the way in which "We, as women,"Are going to lift mankind! With our white frocks starched and ruffled,And our soft hair brushed and curled-Hats off! for "We, as women,"Are coming to save the world.

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Pride & Prejudice: Directed by Joe Wright. With Keira Knightley, Talulah Riley, Rosamund Pike, Jena Malone. Sparks fly when spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets single, rich, and proud Mr. Darcy. But Mr. Darcy reluctantly finds himself falling in love with a woman beneath his class. Can each overcome the…