The Life and Times of Elizabeth Upham Yates: A Crusader for Women's Suffrage, Temperance, and Missionary Work - Hardcover

by Shannon M. Risk (Author)

This biography chronicles the life of Elizabeth Upham Yates who fostered a kind of "American dream" for the single, educated woman in the industrial era. She served as a missionary to China, and then blazed women's suffrage and temperance campaign trails for thirty years as the protege of Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Frances Willard.

Author Biography

Shannon M. Risk is associate professor of history and directs the public history and women's studies minors at Niagara University in New York.