Leslie Wheeler: Editor of Loving Warriors
Joelle Million has written a thoroughly researched account of Lucy Stone from childhood until just after the Civil War. The richly detailed, complex portrait that emerges performs an important service in restoring Stone to her rightful place as the guiding force behind the early woman's rights movement. The movement itself is presented in all its diversity from dress reformers to advocates of easier divorce laws to free lovers.
Carol Lasser Professor of History
The meticulous documentation of the antebellum life and career of Lucy Stone is a truly remarkable achievement. It cannot be surpassed for the thorough charting of Stone's movements, the careful assembling of the correspondence and writings of and about Stone, and the detailed attention to the construction of the woman's rights movement. Nowhere has so much information been brought together on Stone, highlighting her key role in the American woman suffrage movement in its formative years.
Carol Lasser: Professor of History
The meticulous documentation of the antebellum life and career of Lucy Stone is a truly remarkable achievement. It cannot be surpassed for the thorough charting of Stone's movements, the careful assembling of the correspondence and writings of and about Stone, and the detailed attention to the construction of the woman's rights movement. Nowhere has so much information been brought together on Stone, highlighting her key role in the American woman suffrage movement in its formative years.
Judith Wellman: Professor Emerita
Joelle Million's biography of Lucy Stone is very well-documented, as readers would expect from a scholarly work, but it is so well-written that it reads like a novel. I found the story hard to put down. Million tells the story of Stone's life in engaging and dynamic prose. She also offers a very important addition to our knowledge of the early woman's rights movement, helping us to understand that Stone was one of the major leaders, right next to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, and that debates about the rights of women had a broad geographic and cultural context.
Judith Wellman Professor Emerita
Joelle Million's biography of Lucy Stone is very well-documented, as readers would expect from a scholarly work, but it is so well-written that it reads like a novel. I found the story hard to put down. Million tells the story of Stone's life in engaging and dynamic prose. She also offers a very important addition to our knowledge of the early woman's rights movement, helping us to understand that Stone was one of the major leaders, right next to Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, and Matilda Joslyn Gage, and that debates about the rights of women had a broad geographic and cultural context.
Leslie Wheeler Editor of Loving Warriors
Joelle Million has written a thoroughly researched account of Lucy Stone from childhood until just after the Civil War. The richly detailed, complex portrait that emerges performs an important service in restoring Stone to her rightful place as the guiding force behind the early woman's rights movement. The movement itself is presented in all its diversity from dress reformers to advocates of easier divorce laws to free lovers.
