 | Ellen Gruber Garvey - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 241 pages
...Suffragist and temperance leader Frances Willard called her bicycle an "implement of power" and "rejoiced in perceiving the impetus that this uncompromising but fascinating and illimitably capable Hy Horning Spin — " I never enjoyed summer before —always felt ambitionless — My Columbia is... | |
 | Julie Wosk - Art - 2001 - 360 pages
...more to emancipate women than anything else in the world." Willard herself relished the boost that the "fascinating and illimitably capable machine would give to that blessed 'woman question.' "74 Yet in just a few short years, at the beginning of the twentieth century, women in the suffrage... | |
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We rejoiced together greatly in perceiving the impetus that this uncompromising but fascinating and illimitably capable machine would give to that blessed "woman question" to which we were both devoted; for we had earned our own bread many a year, and... 