Jane Grey Swisshelm recounts her Calvinist girlhood in Pennsylvania, an unhappy marriage, the horrors of slavery she saw in Kentucky, and her career as a crusading newspaper editor against slavery and for women’s rights in Pittsburgh and Minnesota, where she faced down hostile politicians. She ends with her work in the army hospitals of Washington during the Civil War.
A fierce, funny and outspoken autobiography by one of the most combative American women of her century. Download the free EPUB.