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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 [-7], Lines —— 0.13 —— Norm * PgEn [-7], Acknowledgments I have worked on this book quite a while, and it would be impossible to acknowledge everyone who has helped me along the way. I would, however, like especially to thank a few people and institutions indispensable to its completion . I began Romancing the Vote as a graduate student in English at the University of Georgia, and while there, I was blessed with an exceptional group of mentors and friends. Roxanne Eberle, Anne Mallory, and Barbara McCaskill were thoughtful readers of my work, and Bonnie Dow taught me a great deal about the historical and rhetorical context of first-wave feminism. I can never thank Kris Boudreau and Tricia Lootens enough for their patient and insightful guidance as dissertation directors; their influence has shaped every page of this book. Meg Amstutz, Olivia Edenfield, Elizabeth Edwards, Bob Fernandez, Ellen Lachney, Rachel Norwood, Caren Orum, Maddux Petty, Aarti Verma, Beth Ann Way, and Lance and Shannon Wilder formed the core of my support network in graduate school, and my relationships with them continue to sustain me. In recent years, the English department at Rhodes College has become my professional home and my colleagues some of my closest friends. Working with them has made me a much better scholar and teacher and has directly contributed to the completion of this work. Special thanks to Dan Gates for his careful reading and commentary, to Bob Johnson for his encouragement, and to Jenny Brady, Gordon Bigelow, and Marshall Boswell for mentoring me through the revision process. Before she died, Cynthia Marshall was not only my chair but my chief advisor and role model. I deeply regret that she did not see the publication of this book, but it is dedicated to her memory and her peerless example. I owe Nancy Grayson at the University of Georgia Press a debt of gratitude for her interest in this project. Also, Lisa Hogeland, Courtney Denney, and M. J. Devaney deserve kudos for their helpful suggestions, as do Amber Shaw and Frances Rabalais for their timely and thorough proofreading. Debbie Hashim and Dave Burgevin at the Smithsonian worked wonders securing for me a beautiful jacket image on very short notice, so I thank them as well. Like most writers, I have benefited from institutional and financial support, so I gratefully acknowledge the Carrie Chapman Catt Center at Iowa State Uni- viii acknowledgments 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 [Last [-8], Lines —— 309 —— Norm PgEn [-8], versity for the honorable mention in the 2001 competition for the Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics. This monetary award, along with the Freeman Research Award from the University of Georgia and the generosity of Rhodes College, underwrote my research endeavors. Thanks also to the Huntington Library for access to the Elizabeth Boynton Harbert Collection and to the New York Public Library for permission to reprint letters from the Elizabeth Garver Jordan Papers. An earlier version of chapter four appeared in Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and I appreciate being given permission to reprint it. Most importantly, I want to thank my parents, Monk and Ellen Petty, and my sisters, Lizette Smith and Lisa Garcia-Arrese, for their contributions to this book. They always tell me that I have gotten where I am on my own, but they are wrong. My most cherished wish has been to make them proud, and that wish—along with their unfailing love—has sustained me throughout the writing process. ...

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