Selections from the Autobiography of Elizabeth Oakes Smith

by Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith, Mary Alice Wyman

Smith (1806 1893) was well known in her day as a novelist and short story writer, and as an advocate for women's rights. She attended the Second National Woman's Rights Convention (1851) and contributed a series of unpaid articles "Woman and Her Needs" for the NY Tribune (later published in pamphlet form). She was a charter member of Sorosis (1868), the first woman's club established in NYC. According to the book's foreword, she was the first woman to lecture on the lyceum circuit, where she was active from 1851 1857. She also published under the pseudonyms Oaks Smith and Ernest Helfenstein. She moved to North Carolina late in life, and participated in suffrage and temperance movements. Edited from her unpublished autobiography. Includes index.

161 pages, Hardcover

Published August 1, 1980