The 'people's Joan of Arc'
Author: Brooke Speer Orr
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781453911983
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is the first comprehensive biography tracing the captivating life of renowned activist Mary Elizabeth Lease. While Lease is most remembered in American history textbooks as the radical leader of the Populist Party, her influence and involvement in the late-nineteenth-century women's suffrage movement and early-twentieth-century feminist movement place her on par with luminaries such as Susan B. Anthony.