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    Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times
    Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times
    Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times
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    Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

    By Alice Duer Miller

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
    Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times
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    Alice Duer Miller

    Alice Duer Miller (1874-1942) was an American novelist, poet, screenwriter, and women’s rights activist. Born into wealth in New York City, she was raised in a family of politicians, businessmen, and academics. At Barnard College, she studied Astronomy and Mathematics while writing novels, essays, and poems. She married Henry Wise Miller in 1899, moving with him in their young son to Costa Rica where they struggled and failed to open a rubber plantation. Back in New York, Miller earned a reputation as a gifted poet whose satirical poems advocating for women’s suffrage were collected in Are Women People? (1915). Over the next two decades, Miller published several collections of stories and poems, some of which would serve as source material for motion picture adaptations. The White Cliffs (1940), her final published work, is a verse novel that uses the story of a young women widowed during the Great War to pose important questions about the morality of conflict and patriotism in the leadup to the United States’ entrance into World War II.

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      Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times - Alice Duer Miller

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      Title: Are Women People?

      Author: Alice Duer Miller

      Release Date: March 23, 2004 [eBook #11689]

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      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?***

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      ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?

      By ALICE DUER MILLER

      ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?

      A BOOK OF RHYMES FOR SUFFRAGE TIMES

      BY ALICE DUER MILLER

      AUTHOR OF BLUE ARCH, THE MODERN OBSTACLE. ETC.

      TO V.B.W. SLAVE-DRIVER AND FRIEND

      Introduction

      Father, what is a Legislature?

      A representative body elected by the people of the state.

      Are women people?

      No, my son, criminals, lunatics and women are not people.

      Do legislators legislate for nothing?

      Oh, no; they are paid a salary.

      By whom?

      By the people.

      Are women people?

      Of course, my son, just as much as men are.

      To the New York Tribune, in whose generous columns many of these verses first appeared, the author here wishes to express her gratitude.

      CONTENTS

      Introduction

      CONTENTS

      TREACHEROUS TEXTS

      CAMPAIGN MATERIAL

      WOMEN'S SPHERE

      A MASQUE OF TEACHERS

      THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS

      TREACHEROUS TEXTS

      ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?

      A Consistent Anti to Her Son

      (Look at the hazards, the risks, the physical dangers that ladies would be exposed to at the polls.—Anti-suffrage speech.)

      You're twenty-one to-day, Willie,

      And a danger lurks at the door,

      I've known about it always,

      But I never spoke before;

      When you were only a baby

      It seemed so very remote,

      But you're twenty-one to-day, Willie,

      And old enough to vote.

      You must not go to the polls, Willie,

      Never go to the polls,

      They're dark and dreadful places

      Where many lose their souls;

      They smirch, degrade and coarsen,

      Terrible things they do

      To quiet, elderly women—

      What would they do to you!

      If you've a boyish fancy

      For any measure or man,

      Tell me, and I'll tell Father,

      He'll vote for it, if he can.

      He casts my vote, and Louisa's,

      And Sarah, and dear Aunt Clo;

      Wouldn't you let him vote for you?

      Father, who loves you so?

      I've guarded you always, Willie,

      Body and soul from harm;

      I'll guard your faith and honor,

      Your innocence and charm

      From the polls and their evil spirits,

      Politics, rum and pelf;

      Do you think I'd send my only son

      Where I would not go myself?

      Our Idea of Nothing at All

      (I am opposed to woman suffrage, but I am not opposed to woman.—Anti-suffrage speech of Mr. Webb of North Carolina.)

      O women, have you heard the news

      Of charity and grace?

      Look, look, how joy and gratitude

      Are beaming in my face!

      For Mr. Webb is not opposed

      To woman in her place!

      O Mr. Webb, how kind you are

      To let us live at all,

      To let us light the kitchen range

      And tidy up the hall;

      To tolerate the female sex

      In spite of Adam's fall.

      O girls, suppose that Mr. Webb

      Should alter his decree!

      Suppose he were opposed to us—

      Opposed to you and me.

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