Life and writings of Amelia Bloomer

Chapter 2: PREFACE.

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The work traces the personal and public life of a leading women's rights advocate who edited a reform periodical, promoted temperance, campaigned for suffrage, and advocated a practical dress reform; it combines biographical narrative, extended extracts of essays and a full lecture, and accounts of speeches and travels across eastern and midwestern communities, documenting early family life and marriage, editorial responsibilities, public lecturing and organizing, debates within reform movements, encounters with legal and social obstacles, and her persistent efforts to advance women's social and political claims.

TO MY WIFE.

PREFACE.

As Mrs. Bloomer was one of the pioneers in what is sometimes called the “Woman’s Movement,” it seems right that a record of her work should be placed in durable form. Such a record I have endeavored to set forth in the following pages. While giving a brief narrative of her life, I have also included, as being most satisfactory, quite extended extracts from her writings; and one of her lectures is printed in full. I will add for the information of the curious that a complete bound copy in one volume of the Lily, as printed and issued by Mrs. Bloomer for six years, is deposited in the State Library, in Albany, N. Y., and is probably the only copy of that work in existence.

D. C. Bloomer.

September, 1895.