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 ...

LECTURES.
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T is more than fifty years
since Margaret Fuller,
standing, as she said, "in
the sunny noon.of life,"
wrote a little book, which
she launched on the current Of thought and
society. It was entitled
"11Woman in the Nineteenth Century" and as
the truths it proclaimed
and the reforms it advocated were far in advance
of public acceptance, its
ON THE LECTURE PLATFORM. appearance was the signal
for an immediate widespread newspaper controversy, that raged with great violence. I was young then, and as I took the book from the
hands of the bookseller, wondering what the contents of
the thin little volume could be, to provoke so wordy a
strife, I opened at the first page. My attention was immediately arrested, and a train of thought started, by the
two mottoes at the head of the opening chapter,- one
underneath the other, one contradicting the other.
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