Clarina Nichols: Frontier Crusader for Women’s RIghts

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We all know in regards to the “Votes for Women” campaign that led to the 19th Amendment in 1920. Few know just how long the struggle truly was once. Decades earlier, brave women started breaking the taboo of remaining silent at gatherings that included men. They started signing their names to petitions, flexing political muscle long before they had the vote. They wrote millions of words and published one of the most influential books and journals in their day. No person represents this early struggle — the small triumphs and discouraging setbacks — better than Clarina Howard Nichols (1810–1885), the Vermont newspaper publisher whose speeches made a powerful case for equality.

Nichols, herself the victim of a failed marriage, was once a magnet to abused and mistreated women and was once their advocate at a time when her sex was once just starting to speak up. And when she felt progress wasn’t coming soon enough, she moved west, to Bleeding Kansas, where she would make history and show the world that feminism could thrive at the frontier.

Diane Eickhoff, who first wrote Nichols’ biography in 2006 as Revolutionary Heart, has reimagined her story for all ages. Booklist declared, “The name Clarina Nichols deserves to be placed next to those of such luminaries as Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” and readers of this inspiring historical biography will heartily agree.

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