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The series opens with a discussion of The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women's Rights, Gerda Lerner's fascinating dual biography, which tells the story of two oft-forgotten sisters who rejected the southern plantation life for the abolition and women's rights movements..
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This session focuses on Harriet Jacobs: A Life, Jean Fagan Yellin's beautifully written account of the most famous runaway slave woman of the 19th century.
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A discussion of Fran Grace's Carry A. Nation: Retelling A Life, a biography of the "original barroom smasher," which highlihgts the role of religion, prohibition and the suffrage movement in the early 20th century West.
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The series concludes with a conversation about Helen Keller: A Life, Dorothy Herrman's illuminating treatment of Keller's roles as a social and political commentator and as a passonate advocate for the disabled.
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