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Title: Samantha on the Woman Question

Author: Marietta Holley

Release date: April 1, 2005 [eBook #7833]
Most recently updated: February 15, 2021

Language: English

Credits: Eric Eldred, William Flis and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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Samantha on the Woman Question

by Marietta Holley

“Josiah Allen’s Wife”

Author of

“Samantha at Saratoga,” “My Opinions” and “Betsey Bobbet’s,” etc.

Contents

I. “SHE WANTED HER RIGHTS”
II. “THEY CAN’T BLAME HER”
III. “POLLY’S EYES GROWED TENDER”
IV. “STRIVIN’ WITH THE EMISSARY”
V. “HE WUZ DRETFUL POLITE”
VI. “CONCERNING MOTH-MILLERS AND MINNY FISH”
VII. “NO HAMPERIN’ HITCHIN’ STRAPS”
VIII. “OLD MOM NATER LISTENIN’”
IX. THE WOMEN’S PARADE
X. “THE CREATION SEARCHIN’ SOCIETY”
Illustration:

“And I wonder if there is a woman in the land that can blame Serepta for wantin’ her rights.”

ILLUSTRATIONS

“AND I WONDER IF THERE’S A WOMAN IN THE LAND THAT CAN BLAME SEREPTA FOR WANTIN’ HER RIGHTS”
“I WANTED TO VISIT THE CAPITOL OF OUR COUNTRY.... SO WE LAID OUT TO GO”
“HE’D ENTERED POLITICAL LIFE WHERE THE BIBLE WUZN’T POPULAR; HE’D NEVER READ FURTHER THAN GULLIVER’S EPISTLE TO THE LILIPUTIANS”
“SEZ JOSIAH, ‘DOES THAT THING KNOW ENOUGH TO VOTE?’”