A pioneer in the field of women's history and a leading feminist biographer, Susan Ware is the author of numerous books on twentieth-century U.S. history, including American Women's History: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2015) and Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote. She has also served as the editor of the biographical dictionary Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century and as the general editor of American National Biography published by Oxford University Press. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Hopkinton, New Hampshire.

For Susan Ware, reading the first wave of feminist biographies published in the 1970s felt like 'a revolutionary act.' Soon she joined the cause herself, writing and editing over the next half century some of the key works in the burgeoning field and helping to define a genre that set out to document the ways 'women have always been a force in history.' In the nine exquisitely crafted essays of Speaking Louder Than I Can, Ware brings a new constellation of activist women to light while reflecting on her past work and offering guidance to a future in which 'all biography should be feminist biography.'

• Introduction: The Challenge of Feminist Biography Chapter 1: The Book I Couldn't Write: The Elusive Alice Paul Chapter 2: Catching Courage: Carolyn Heilbrun on Writing Women's Lives Writing a Woman's Life Chapter 3: Walking in Pauli Murray's Proud Shoes Chapter 4: Caroline Ware Tells Her Own Story Chapter 5: Parallel Lives: Gertrude Stein, Susan B. Anthony, and The Mother of Us All Chapter 6: Doris Stevens and the Politics of Inclusion Chapter 7: Who Belongs in the Suffrage Forest? Reflections on Biography and the Centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment Chapter 8: Mildred Jefferson's Right to Life Chapter 9: The Personal Is Political: Dorothy McConnell and the Making of a Future Feminist Epilogue: The Suffrage Forest Revisited Notes Index

A pioneer in the field of women's history and a leading feminist biographer, Susan Ware is the author of numerous books on twentieth-century U.S. history, including American Women's History: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2015) and Why They Marched: Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote. She has also served as the editor of the biographical dictionary Notable American Women: Completing the Twentieth Century and as the general editor of American National Biography published by Oxford University Press. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Hopkinton, New Hampshire.

For Susan Ware, reading the first wave of feminist biographies published in the 1970s felt like 'a revolutionary act.' Soon she joined the cause herself, writing and editing over the next half century some of the key works in the burgeoning field and helping to define a genre that set out to document the ways 'women have always been a force in history.' In the nine exquisitely crafted essays of Speaking Louder Than I Can, Ware brings a new constellation of activist women to light while reflecting on her past work and offering guidance to a future in which 'all biography should be feminist biography.'

• Introduction: The Challenge of Feminist Biography Chapter 1: The Book I Couldn't Write: The Elusive Alice Paul Chapter 2: Catching Courage: Carolyn Heilbrun on Writing Women's Lives Writing a Woman's Life Chapter 3: Walking in Pauli Murray's Proud Shoes Chapter 4: Caroline Ware Tells Her Own Story Chapter 5: Parallel Lives: Gertrude Stein, Susan B. Anthony, and The Mother of Us All Chapter 6: Doris Stevens and the Politics of Inclusion Chapter 7: Who Belongs in the Suffrage Forest? Reflections on Biography and the Centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment Chapter 8: Mildred Jefferson's Right to Life Chapter 9: The Personal Is Political: Dorothy McConnell and the Making of a Future Feminist Epilogue: The Suffrage Forest Revisited Notes Index