The story of my life ; or, The sunshine and shadow of seventy years / by Mary A. Livermore ... with hitherto unrecorded incidents and recollections of three years' experience as an army nurse in the great Civil War, and reminiscences of twenty-five years' experiences on the lecture platform ... to which is added six of her most popular lectures ... with portraits and one hundred and twenty engravings from designs by eminent artists ...

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vention called by Mrs. Lucretia Mott and Mrs. Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, at Seneca Falls, New York. To Mrs. Stone
the reform was more than life. And stimulated by the
great love he bore her, her husband worked with her, all
through the years, till her death,- assisting her to forge her
thunderbolts, to tip with force and directness her arrows, to
plan her campaigns, which took them both into the enemy's
country, whence they returned with new recruits, leaving
behind hosts of friends, and a diminished and weakened
opposition.
Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has been another of my beloved
co-workers, who brought her gracious presence, her large
mental equipment, as well as her literary reputation, to the
aid of the suffrage cause. Mrs. Lydia Maria Child preceded
Mrs. Howe as a reformer, and at the start sacrificed her
literary prospects to the cause of the slave,--and later,
when slavery was abolished, entered the lists for the emancipation of women. Clara Barton, my famous co-worker
in the Sanitary Commission during the late civil war,who afterwards gave her services to the hospitals during
the Franco-Prussian war, at the request of the Empress
Augusta,--and later was made chief of the Red Cross
Society to which she was appointed by President Garfield,
-and who now is almoner of the charities of the United
States to the hunted, starving, persecuted Armenians, the
victims of Moslem hate, - is proud to associate herself with
woman suffragists. So are Mrs. Ednah D. Cheney, a pupil
of Margaret Fuller, the author of many valuable books, the
tireless worker for the Boston Woman's Hospital,--Dr.
Marie Zachrzewska, one of the world's three pioneer medical women, and the founder of the Woman's Hospital,Alice Freeman Palmer, the ex-President of Wellesley College, and Dean of Women Students in Chicago University,