Jane Grey Swisshelm: An Unconventional Life, 1815-1884

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contents Prologue 1 chapter one That Olde-Time Religion 9 chapter two A Marriage Fraught with Conflict 33 chapter three The Troublesome Matter of Property 61 chapter four Woman’s Work in a Man’s World 79 chapter five A Different Sort of Politics 103 chapter six A World in Need of Improvement 133 chapter seven Respectable but Not Genteel 161 Afterword 191 Note on Primary Sources 199 Notes 209 Acknowledgments 247 Index 249 This page intentionally left blank illustrations 35 Self-portrait of Jane Grey Swisshelm, ca. 1840 56 Jane Grey Swisshelm and her daughter, Zo Swisshelm, ca. 1860 76 The Swisshelm homestead, Swissvale, ca. 1880 89 Portrait of Jane Grey Swisshelm, ca. 1850 127 Office of the St. Cloud Democrat, ca. 1860 146 Caricature of the delegates to the Akron Woman’s Rights Convention, 1852 177 Portrait of Jane Grey Swisshelm, ca. 1870 178 Zo Swisshelm in her wedding dress, 1881 179 Portrait of Ernest Allen, ca. 1880 180 Portrait of Jane Grey Swisshelm’s granddaughters , Jane and Elizabeth Allen, ca. 1900 This page intentionally left blank jane grey swisshelm q This page intentionally left blank ...