What Shall We Do with Our Daughters?: Superfluous Women, and Other Lectures
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The Two Families: And, The Duty That Lies Nearest : Prize Stories
Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Mrs. N. T. Munroe
A. Tompkins, 1848
Family & Relationships; Parenting; Motherhood; Family & Relationships / Parenting / Motherhood; Motherhood; Unitarianism; Wives
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My Story of the War (Illustrated): A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience as Nurse in the Union Army
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The author also relates her experiences in relief work at home, in hospitals, camps, and at the front, during the war of the rebellion; with anecdotes, pathetic incidents, and thrilling reminiscences portraying the lights and shadows of hospital life and the sanitary services of the war.
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Mary Livermore was an American author and journalist.
Background
Mary Livermore was born on December 19, 1820 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was the fourth child of Timothy and Zebiah Vose Glover (Ashton) Rice. Her father was descended from Edmund Rice, who came to Massachusetts in 1638; her mother's father was born in London. In her parents' Boston home on Salem Street, not far from the Old North Church, Mary Rice passed most of her childhood. Here she was indoctrinated with the tenets of Calvinistic religion and with high ethical standards.
Education
She received the education provided for girls by the public and private schools of Boston. Her New England schooling was once interrupted, when her father, infected with the western fever of the thirties, moved to a frontier section of New York state, only to return to Boston two years later, convinced that pioneer farming had few attractions. Mary, having completed the work of the Hancock Grammar School at fourteen, entered the Female Seminary of Charlestown.
Career
Mary Ashton worked at the Female Seminary of Charlestown as an instructor in French and Latin until an opportunity came to teach on a Virginia plantation. From this experience she later drew the picture of plantation life which is to be found in her Story of my Life. After her return to Massachusetts, she was a teacher at Duxbury where she worked for three years.
After her marriage, the first pastorate served by the young couple was at Fall River, where they were indefatigable in their labors with reading and study groups, one of which was made up of factory operatives. Here Mary Livermore's first published work, a temperance story, was written. The next post, at Stafford, Connecticut, was resigned because of her husband's advocacy of the temperance cause, in opposition to the majority of his congregation. After serving pastorates in Weymouth and Malden, Massachusetts, they started for Kansas in 1857, but abandoned their intention to settle there and remained in Chicago.
In 1857 her husband established a church periodical, the New Covenant, which he conducted from 1857 to 1869 and Mary Ashton became his associate editor for the next twelve years. At the same time she cared for her two children, took a lively interest in local charities, and did much miscellaneous writing.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, she devoted her extraordinary energy to the work of the Northwestern Branch of the United States Sanitary Commission. Up to this time she had given scant attention to the extension of the suffrage to women, believing that desirable social reforms could be accomplished by other methods than the vote. Her war experience seems to have convinced her that woman's suffrage would be the most direct route to the curtailing of the liquor traffic, improvements in public education, and the alleviation of many problems of poverty; and at the close of hostilities she directed all her efforts to the enfranchisement of women. At the first woman's suffrage convention in Chicago she delivered the opening address, and was elected president of the Illinois Woman's Suffrage Association. In 1869 she established The Agitator, a paper devoted to the cause. A few months later, The Agitator was merged with the Woman's Journal, just established in Boston, and she undertook the editorship of the new periodical.
Then she moved from Chicago, and for the remainder of her life she lived in Melrose, Massachusetts. In 1872 she gave up her editorial work to devote her time to public lecturing, and for the last twenty-five years of the century she was a well-known platform speaker, on social questions and topics of history, biography, politics, and education. The lecture she most frequently delivered was probably, "What Shall We Do with Our Daughters?" a plea for the higher education and the professional training of women. The two subjects in which she was most interested and in which her influence was most largely felt were the education of women and the cause of temperance.
For ten years she was president of the Massachusetts Women's Christian Temperance Union; she was a president of the Massachusetts Woman's Suffrage Association, and was connected with the Women's Educational and Industrial Union and the National Conference of Charities and Corrections. In 1893 her name appeared, with that of Frances E. Willard, as joint editor of A Woman of the Century, a compilation of biographical sketches, which went through a number of editions, under other titles. Throughout her life her vigor rarely failed, and she spoke from a public platform after she had passed her eighty-third birthday.
Achievements
Livermore was a prominent activist, reformer, abolinist and advocate of women's rights. She was one of the founders of the Chicago branch of the United States Sanitary Commission in 1862. She was the only woman to report the Republican National Convention which nominated Lincoln in Chicago in May 1860. She was also the founder of the paper called The Agitator. Notable among her publications were her two autobiographical volumes, My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative of Four Years Personal Experience (1888) and The Story of My Life, or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years (1897).
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Politics
She was a member of the Republican Party.
Views
She was active in the suffrage movement.
Quotations:
"Above the titles of wife and mother, which, although dear, are transitory and accidental, there is the title human being, which precedes and out-ranks every other. ”
“For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule of life. .. ”
“One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always diseased. Such teaching is pestiferous, and tends to cause and perpetuate the very evils it professes to remedy. ”
Connections
In 1845 Mary Ashton Rice married the Reverend Daniel Parker Livermore, of the Universalist Church. They lived together fifty-four years, until the death of Livermore on July 5, 1899.
