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

By Alice Duer Miller

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
• Release date: May 20, 2015
• ISBN: 9781473374478

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

by

ALICE DUER MILLER

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Contents

Alice Duer Miller

Introduction

TREACHEROUS TEXTS

ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?

Our Idea of Nothing at All

Lines to Mr. Bowdle of Ohio

On Not Believing All You Hear

The Revolt of Mother

The Gallant Sex

Representation

Sonnet

To President Wilson

Home and Where It Is

Such Nonsense

A Suggested Campaign Song

The Woman of Charm

A Modern Proposal

The Newer Lullaby

The Protected Sex

Warning to Suffragists

Partners

What Governments Say to Women

Oh, That ‘Twere Possible!

CAMPAIGN MATERIAL

Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons

Why We Oppose Pockets for Women

Fashion Notes: Past and Present

Why We Oppose Women Travelling in Railway Trains

Why We Oppose Schools for Children

But Then Who Cares for Figures

Why We Oppose Votes for Men

The Logic of the Law

Consistency

Sometimes We’re Ivy, and Sometimes We’re Oak

Do You Know

Interviews With Celebrated Anti-Suffragists

Another of Those Curious Coincidences

The New Freedom

To the Great Dining Out Majority

WOMEN’S SPHERE

Many Men to Any Woman

A Sex Difference

Advice to Heroines

Mutual Vows

If They Meant All They Said

Democracy

Feminism

The Warning

Evolution

Intercepted

The Universal Answer

Candor

What Every Woman Must Not Say

Chivalry

Women

Beware!

Male Philosophy

From a Man’s Point of View

Glory

Dependence

Playthings

Militants

A Lady’s Choice

The Ballad of Lost Causes

Thoughts at an Anti Meeting

A MASQUE OF TEACHERS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS SUFFRAGISTS

Alice Duer Miller

Alice Duer Miller was born on 28 July, 1874 in New York City, USA. She was born into a wealthy and illustrious family, her great grandfather was the president of Columbia College (1829-1842) and her great great grandfather, William Duer, was one of the signatories on the United States Articles of Condeferation. She was also a descendant of Senator Rufus King, who was the delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress, and one of the signatories on the United States Constitution. By the time of Miller’s entrance into society, her family had lost almost all of its fortune however. She entered Barnard College, New York, in 1895, and studied mathematics and astronomy – paying for her tuition through the sale of novels

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

[alyssa.wassink · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Fun book. Quick to read and, surprisingly still at least somewhat relevant.

[ariadnearanea · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A nice collection of US suffrage rhymes and other snippets - with titles like "The Revolt of Mother" and "Why We Oppose Pockets for Women". As far as poetry goes, it's pretty dreadful - but that isn't what it's for. It is a pointed but humourous contribution to the campaign for female suffrage in America and (more particularly) a piece of well-deserved mockery for anti-suffragist speakers and writers. Well worth an hour or two - especially at election time!