My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light to Guide Women to Life, Libe... Part 1/2

My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light to Guide Women to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, but which may be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect without Injury to Themselves or the Book by Marietta Holley (1836 - 1926)
Genre(s): Culture & Heritage Fiction, Fictional Biographies & Memoirs, Humorous Fiction

Read by: TriciaG in English

Parts:

Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Dedication and Preface
00:06:10 - 01 - Married to Josiah Allen
00:11:13 - 02 - Josiah and the Children
00:18:30 - 03 - An Unmarried Female
00:37:44 - 04 - Havin' My Picture Took
00:49:27 - 05 - Our Surprise Parties
01:05:32 - 06 - A Day of Troubles
01:24:52 - 07 - The Minister's Bedquilt
01:48:14 - 08 - A Allegory on Wimmen's Rights
02:11:37 - 09 - An Axident
02:31:12 - 10 - The Jonesville Singin' Quire
02:55:44 - 11 - Miss Shakespeare's Earrings
03:21:55 - 12 - A Nite of Troubles
03:38:01 - 13 - 4th of July in Jonesville
04:05:59 - 14 - Simon Slimpsey's Mournful Forebodin's
04:24:17 - 15 - Free Love Lectures
04:45:59 - 16 - Elder Wesley Minkle's Donation Party
05:19:02 - 17 - Wimmin's Speah
05:50:15 - 18 - A Tower to New York Discussed
06:11:59 - 19 - Governed by Principle
06:33:54 - 20 - Meetin' Grant and Colfax
06:55:06 - 21 - At New York, Asters'es Tavern

. . . a voice kept a sayin' inside of me, 'Josiah Allen's wife, write a book givin' your views on the great subject of Wimmen's Rites.' But I hung back in spirit from the idea and says I, to myself, I never went to school much and don't know nothin' about grammer, and I never could spell worth a cent. . . . 'I don't know no underground dungeons, I haint acquainted with no haunted houses, I never see a hero suspended over a abyss by his gallusses, I never beheld a heroine swoon away, I never see a Injun tommy hawked, nor a ghost; I never had any of these advantages; I cant write a book.'But still it kept a sayin' inside of my mind, 'Josiah Allen's wife write a book about your life, as it passes in front of you and Josiah, daily, and your views on Wimmen's Rite's. The great publick wheel is a rollin' on slowly, drawin' the Femail Race into liberty; Josiah Allen's wife, put your shoulder blades to the wheel.' (Summary from the preface)NOTE: This book is the product of its time and contains racial terms not acceptable today. Any songs sung are from the original tunes mentioned, and are in the public domain.