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[Illustration: D. C. Bloomer(signature)]
LIFE AND WRITINGS OF
AMELIA BLOOMER
BY
D. C. BLOOMER, LL. D.
WITH PORTRAITS
[Illustration: Art for Truth]
BOSTON
ARENA PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPLEY SQUARE
1895
Republished 1976
Scholarly Press, Inc., 22929 Industrial Drive East
St. Clair Shores, Michigan 48080
COPYRIGHTED, 1895,
BY
D. C. BLOOMER.
=Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data=
Bloomer, Dexter C 1820-1900.
Life and writings of Amelia Bloomer.
Reprint of the ed. published by Arena Pub. Co.,
Boston.
1. Bloomer, Amelia Jenks, 1818-1894. 2. Women’s
rights—United States. I. Title.
HQ1413.B6B6 1975b 301.41’2’0924 72-78650
ISBN 0-403-01994-X
TO MY WIFE.
PREFACE.
As Mrs. Bloomer was one of the pioneers in what is sometimes called
the “Woman’s Movement,” it seems right that a record of her work
should be placed in durable form. Such a record I have endeavored to
set forth in the following pages. While giving a brief narrative of
her life, I have also included, as being most satisfactory, quite
extended extracts from her writings; and one of her lectures is
printed in full. I will add for the information of the curious that a
complete bound copy in one volume of the LILY, as printed and issued
by Mrs. Bloomer for six years, is deposited in the State Library,
in Albany, N. Y., and is probably the only copy of that work in
existence.
D. C. BLOOMER.
September, 1895.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
PREFACE v
CHAPTER I.
HER EARLY LIFE—HER MARRIAGE—TIPPECANOE AND
TYLER, TOO!—A WRITER FOR NEWSPAPERS—WASHINGTONIANISM—JOINS
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