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Title: The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ...
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: New York : The Fifth avenue library society
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ink, remarked Lacy to the fellows,when the astounding news had been told and freely dis-cussed, * that now we must let the poor, malicious,cwooked-minded chap west in his gwave in peace.Seems to me, he continued, with his most reflectiveair, that—er—Solomon was wight, and said a vewywise thing, when he said, * love laughs at locksmiths. Solomon ! cried a voice, amid a shout of laughter. Oh, wasnt it Solomon? questioned Lacy mildly.Its of no consequence; someone said it. But onlythink of that poor devil spending his last momentswaising a barwier to keep mother and child apart, andold Booties fulfils all the conditions to the letter, andbweaks them all in the spirit by—marwiage! —Booties Baby. Mrs. Stannard founded, in 1891, Winters WeeklyMagazine; was elected, in 1892, President of the Writers* Club, the pioneer female press club;elected in 1893 a Fellow of the Rojal Society ofLiterature. She gave the entire copyright of ASoldier s Children to the Victoria Hospital forChildren.
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STANTON, Elizabeth (Cady), an Americanreformer and advocate of female suffrage, born inJohnstown, N. Y., November 12th, 1815; died inNew York City, October 25th, 1902. A daugh-ter of Judge Daniel Cady, she was educated atJohnstown Academy and at Mrs. Willards sem-inary in Troy, N. Y., graduating in 1832. In1840 she married Henry B. Stanton. Her studyof Blackstone, Story, and other legal writers firstdrew her attention to the subject of woman suf-frage. With Lucretia Mott, whose acquaintanceshe had made at the Anti-Slavery Convention inLondon, 1840, she signed the call for the first wom-ans rights convention, which met in SenecaFalls, N. Y., in 1848. She circulated petitions forthe Married Womans Property Bill, and addresseda legislative committee on the subject in 1844.She has lectured throughout the United States,and frequently addressed Congressional commit-tees and State Conventions. She was Presidentof the Womans Rights Committee (1855-65), ofthe Womans Loyal League in 1863, and o

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