Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

By Alice Duer Miller

"Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times" is a book of poetry by Alice Duer Miller, a feminist American poet whose verses impacted the suffrage issue. This book is a great source of information about the times when women's suffrage became a prominent political movement.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Jun 13, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547062844

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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Alice Duer Miller

Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

EAN 8596547062844

DigiCat, 2022

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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

The Maiden's Vow

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!

The Times Editorials

CAMPAIGN MATERIAL

Our Own Twelve Anti-suffragist Reasons

Why We Oppose Pockets for Women

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

The Ideal Candidates

The Unconscious Suffragists

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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.

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ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?

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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