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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the tireless young champion of college and university education for women, - Harriet Hosmer and Anne Whitney, our
American sculptors, whose sympathy with what is noblest
in human character and loftiest in human deeds is expressed
in statuary.
What a brilliant coterie of gifted and famous men I
found associated in this new work for women! George
William Curtis, the Chevalier Bayard of the movement,
" without fear and without reproach,"-- Henry Ward
Beecher, who always carried his audiences by storm when
he pleaded for women,- Wendell Phillips, the beloved
orator with the silver tongue, who never failed us, when
there was need of him,- William Lloyd Garrison, who
lived to see the anti-slavery reform which he had inaugurated completely successful, and was hailed as their
deliverer by four million black slaves,- Ralph Waldo
Emerson, the philosopher, poet, and seer, with Bronson
Alcott, the transcendentalist,- James T. Fields, the author
and publisher,- Rev. Samuel J. May of New York, a
"born saint " and a grand man, with his cousin, Rev.
Samuel May of Massachusetts, equally loyal to the right,Rev. Dr. James Freeman Clarke, the one firm friend of
Theodore Parker, when all others "forsook him and fled,"
- Col. Thomas W. Higginson, always the friend and
helper of woman,- ex-Governors William Claflin and John
D. Long, politicians of unblemished moral repute, and as
able and influential as they were excellent,- Hon. George
F. Hoar, who has put the strength of his great name and
influence to our service in every emergency,- what other
reform has started off with so notable an array of men and
women?
It was my good fortune in early life to have a brief but
profitable acquaintance with Horace Mann, whom I always