Heroes of the Women's Suffrage Movement
Series · 5 books · 2016
Books in series
#1
Champions for Women's Rights
Matilda Joslyn Gage, Julia Ward Howe, Lucretia Mott, and Lucy Stone
2016
Profiles some of the most notable women working for the rights of women in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including Matilda Joslyn Gage and Lucretia Mott.
#3
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Founder of the Women's Suffrage Movement
2016
Chronicles the life and career of the suffragist hero, covering her youth, women's rights advocacy, and relationships with contemporaries.
#4
Sojourner Truth
Women's Rights Activist and Abolitionist
2016
Chronicles the life and work of the women's rights advocate and abolitionist, covering her life as a slave, move to New York, and legacy today.
#5
Susan B. Anthony
Social Reformer and Feminist
2016
Chronicles the life of the feminist and suffragist, covering her early life, work towards the abolition of slavery, and death before the Nineteenth Amendment.
#6
The Seneca Falls Convention
Working to Expand Women's Rights
2016
Details the events of the Seneca Falls convention, including the attendees, what they accomplished, and its legacy today.
Authors
Deborah Kent
Author · 37 books
Deborah Kent was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, and grew up in nearby Little Falls. She graduated from Oberlin College and received a master's degree from Smith College School for Social Work. For four years, she was a social worker at University Settlement House on New York's Lower East Side. In 1975, Ms. Kent moved to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she wrote her first young-adult novel, Belonging. In San Miguel, Ms. Kent helped to found the Centro de Crecimiento, a school for children with disabilities. Ms. Kent is the author of numerous young-adult novels and nonfiction titles for children. She lives in Chicago with her husband, children's author R. Conrad Stein, and their daughter, Janna.
