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Men, Women, and Gods, and Other Lectures by Helen H. Gardener is the first in a series of books to be published by Books Reborn. The goal of Books Reborn is to reprint rare books and other literature from the 18th and 19th centuries which are of interest to skeptics, freethinkers, feminists, and students of American history.
Helen Hamilton Gardener was born Mary Alice Chenoweth on January 21, 1853, in Winchester, Virginia, daughter of Alfred Griffith Chenoweth and Catherine Peel Chenoweth. She graduated from the Cincinnati (Ohio) Normal School in 1873, married Charles S. Smart in 1875, and moved with him to New York City in 1880. In New York, she studied biology at Columbia University, lectured on sociology at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, contributed to newspapers, and came under the influence of the famous freethinker Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. She gave a series of lectures on freethinking in 1884 and published them in 1885 as Men, Women, and Gods, and Other Lectures under the name Helen Hamilton Gardener, which she subsequently adopted. After her husband's death in 1901, she married Selden Allen Day in 1902. They spent five years in world travel before settling in Washington, D.C.
In 1913 Gardener was appointed to reorganize the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association [NAWSA], which had been depleted by mass resignations of radical suffragists and followers of Alice Paul. She was elected a vice president of the association in 1917. Her contacts, notably with President Woodrow Wilson and Speaker of the House Champ Clark, along with her wit and tact, made her a central figure in the practical business of maneuvering the federal suffrage amendment through a maze of obstacles. In 1920 (following the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote) she was appointed by Wilson to the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the highest federal position occupied by a woman to that time. She served until her death in Washington, D.C., on July 26, 1925.
Helen Hamilton Gardener was born Mary Alice Chenoweth on January 21, 1853, in Winchester, Virginia, daughter of Alfred Griffith Chenoweth and Catherine Peel Chenoweth. She graduated from the Cincinnati (Ohio) Normal School in 1873, married Charles S. Smart in 1875, and moved with him to New York City in 1880. In New York, she studied biology at Columbia University, lectured on sociology at the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, contributed to newspapers, and came under the influence of the famous freethinker Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll. She gave a series of lectures on freethinking in 1884 and published them in 1885 as Men, Women, and Gods, and Other Lectures under the name Helen Hamilton Gardener, which she subsequently adopted. After her husband's death in 1901, she married Selden Allen Day in 1902. They spent five years in world travel before settling in Washington, D.C.
In 1913 Gardener was appointed to reorganize the Congressional Committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association [NAWSA], which had been depleted by mass resignations of radical suffragists and followers of Alice Paul. She was elected a vice president of the association in 1917. Her contacts, notably with President Woodrow Wilson and Speaker of the House Champ Clark, along with her wit and tact, made her a central figure in the practical business of maneuvering the federal suffrage amendment through a maze of obstacles. In 1920 (following the ratification of the 19th Amendment granting women the right to vote) she was appointed by Wilson to the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the highest federal position occupied by a woman to that time. She served until her death in Washington, D.C., on July 26, 1925.
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Book Details
| Author / Artist | Dalton/Dalton |
| Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
| Date Published | 2001-06-28 |
| ISBN | 9780738847856 |
| ISBN-10 | 0738847852 |
| Product ID | 1155237 |
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