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A VERY DANGEROUS WOMAN MARTHA WRIGHT AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS Sherry H. Penney and James D. Livingston ! “A VERY DANGEROUS WOMAN” is what Martha CoffinWright’s conservative neighbors considered her, because of her work in the women’s rights and abolition movements. In ,Wright and her older sister Lucretia Mott were among the five brave women who organized the historic Seneca Falls Women’s Rights Convention.Wright remained a prominent figure in the women’s movement until her death in  at age sixty-eight, when she was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association. At age twenty-six, she attended the  founding of the American Anti-Slavery Society and later presided over numerous antislavery meetings , including two in  that were disrupted by angry anti-abolitionist mobs. Active in the Underground Railroad, she sheltered fugitive slaves and was a close friend and supporter of HarrietTubman. In telling Wright’s story, the authors make good use of her lively letters to her family, friends, and colleagues, including Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.This accessible biography, written with the general reader in mind, offers a vivid panorama ofWright’s remarkable life. “IS it possible that we are still discovering our Founding Mothers? Now it’s Martha Wright’s turn to be unearthed from history to her-story.This book shows her passion, joy and humor. If she was‘a very dangerous woman,’ we could use a lot more of them.” —Ellen Goodman of the Boston Globe “BEYOND those specifically interested in reform, this book will attract a wider audience interested in biography and women’s lives. The ‘plot’ of Martha Coffin Wright’s life is inherently dramatic and well captured by this book.” —Christopher Densmore, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College “THIS is a highly readable, very well researched book about an important woman whose life raises major questions about freedom, rights, religion, family, race, and women’s roles generally.Wright is so wonderfully witty and so quotable. . . .Who would not love to read this book?” —JudithWellman, SUNY Oswego SHERRY H. PENNEY is former chancellor and currently holder of the Sherry H. Penney Professorship of Leadership in the College of Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Her husband,James D. Livingston, a direct descendant of MarthaWright, teaches materials science at MIT and also writes onAmerican history. CoverdesignbyMilendaNanOkLee Daguerreotype of Martha CoffinWright. Courtesy of Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESS Amherst&Boston www.umass.edu/umpress ...

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