Anne C. Coon, who earned her PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo, is associate professor and director of writing at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She writes and lectures on 19th-century literature and the rhetoric of women's reform.

• Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction In the Cause of Temperance "A New Era Has Dawned" "Against the Great Destroyer" "Mothers of the Revolution" "Most Terribly Bereft!" Woman's Education and Employment "The Great Field of Knowledge" "Labor is the Right" Woman's Right to Vote "Equality in Rights and Privileges" "Alas! Poor Adam" "A Principle of All Free Governments" Looking Back "A Score of Years Ago" "Indeed it Was So Novel" Selected Bibliography Index

Anne C. Coon, who earned her PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo, is associate professor and director of writing at the Rochester Institute of Technology. She writes and lectures on 19th-century literature and the rhetoric of women's reform.

• Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction In the Cause of Temperance "A New Era Has Dawned" "Against the Great Destroyer" "Mothers of the Revolution" "Most Terribly Bereft!" Woman's Education and Employment "The Great Field of Knowledge" "Labor is the Right" Woman's Right to Vote "Equality in Rights and Privileges" "Alas! Poor Adam" "A Principle of All Free Governments" Looking Back "A Score of Years Ago" "Indeed it Was So Novel" Selected Bibliography Index