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Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist Hardcover – September 20, 2018

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Radical, feminist, writer, suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage changed the course of history. She fought for equal rights not dependent on sex, race, class, or creed. Yet her name has faded into obscurity. She is forgotten when her comrades, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, are celebrated. To explain, Angelica Shirley Carpenter explores Gage s life, including her rise and fall within the movement she helped build.
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Carpenter s book is a strong reminder that history is written by the victors. Born Criminal is an inspirational portrait of a woman who never gave up the fight for equality; her message could not be more timely or more necessary. --Foreword Reviews

This impeccably researched narrative is often lively but also dense with detail, with many photos extending the text. Gage is a forgotten heroine, and those interested in women s history will appreciate this restoration. --Booklist

An excellent book about a woman who was an abolitionist, suffragist, freethinker and radical. No wonder she was written out of women's history. I wish I had known about this remarkable woman years ago. I highly recommend this very readable book. --Goodreads

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Angelica Shirley Carpenter has master s degrees in education and library science from the University of Illinois and is the author or co-author of four illustrated biographies for young people. For sixteen years, she served as director of the Palm Springs Public library. As president of the Palm Beach County Library Association, she founded BookFest of the Palm Beaches, an annual literary festival. In 2011, she retired from the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children s Literature at California State University. Carpenter currently resides in Fresno, California, and is active in the International Wizard of Oz Club, the Robert Louis Stevenson Club, the Lewis Carroll Society of North America, Britain, and Canada, and the Society of Children s Book Writers and Illustrators.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1941813186
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ South Dakota Historical Society Press; First Edition (September 20, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781941813188
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1941813188
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 7 - 9
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.42 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.25 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches
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Angelica Shirley Carpenter was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She has lived also in Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Nebraska, Illinois, Colorado, Ontario, Florida, and Kingston-upon-Thames, a suburb of London. Angelica writes biographies for young people and older readers, too. Her subjects are authors—Frances Hodgson Burnett, L. Frank Baum, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lewis Carroll, and Matilda Joslyn Gage.

Angelica speaks for teachers, librarians, writers, book clubs, students, bookstore groups, and other audiences. Her photographs appear in her books and in her illustrated talks.

Angelica lives with her husband in Fresno, California. A self-proclaimed Oz nut, she is a past president of the International Wizard of Oz Club. In her former life she was a librarian, the founding curator of the Arne Nixon Center for the Study of Children's Literature at California State University, Fresno. She likes to read, travel, shop, cook, watch movies, and listen to rock and roll (not all at the same time).

Her website is www.angelicacarpenter.com.

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F. Orion Pozo
5.0 out of 5 stars Too radical for her time, her work fueled the Second Wave Feminist Movement
Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2023
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Matilda Joslyn Gage was one of the three most prominent suffragists of the 19th Century, along with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Early leaders of the movement to get equal rights for women, these three started the seminal work on the movement History of Woman Suffrage. Yet today Matilda Joslyn Gage is the least known of the three. Angelica Shirley Carpenter's biography does a lot to bring Gage's accomplishments to a modern audience. Of the three, Gage was the most radical, tracing women's oppresion to a coordinated effort of organized religion and civil governments. She was also the most scholarly, looking into the hostory of women's oppression. Her writings on this appeared in the first volume of History of Woman Suffrage, and in much greater detail in her later work Woman, Church and State. Too radical for her time, her work on the history of women's oppression fueled the Second Wave Feminist Movement.
This book relies a lot on papers preserved by Gage's children who settled in the Dakota Territory in the 1880s. This may explain why the book was published by the South Dakota Historical Society. The title is based on Gage's assertion that, lacking the basic right to vote, women were treated similar to criminals by society.
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Florabeth
5.0 out of 5 stars Important book on the history of woman suffrage
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2018
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Ms. Carpenter has done a remarkable job of bringing to light a significant but forgotten woman who fought her entire life for the rights of women. Due to impressive and extensive research, we learn the history of woman suffrage from a different perspective--through the eyes of Matilda Joslyn Gage who worked tirelessly for the cause yet in the shadow of the better known Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. I found it unsettling to learn of the conflicts between these three great women, and others, who all fought for equality for women; yet this is the substance of the book. The author's ability to develop the character of Mrs. Gage through letters and family photos makes for interesting reading and we come away with new insight into an important facet of American history and admiration for one strong woman in particular who never gave up in spite of betrayal by her colleagues.
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Steven D
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully told true story.
Reviewed in the United States on June 25, 2019
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Excellent book and thoroughly researched. I bought the book as a Wizard of Oz fan (Matilda's son in law was L Frank Baum. It was Matilda who told Frank, why don't you write the stories down that you tell the children.). I thought is be bored with the rest of it, but it was so we'll written and interesting. The story of Matilda's removal from historymay change your minds about Susan B Anthony.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Battling for the Good, and the Vote
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2019
Matilda Joslyn Gage. Likely not a name you've heard before, which seems to be just what some important fellow suffragists intended. Angelica Shirley Carpenter, the author of this well-researched biography, reveals the strains in that movement to gain women the right to vote. And she brings to light a woman of passionate commitment, responsible to family but also to something larger, who endured arrest and abuse and wore herself out for women's rights.

Matilda Electa Joslyn was born in 1826 to a prosperous family. Her father was a doctor, and rare for the time, he sometimes took his young daughter with him to make calls. Occasionally she even helped with patients. The work, and her father, inspired her and she decided to become a doctor.

Dr. Joslyn had the courage of his convictions. His home was a stop on the Underground Railroad. He edited a temperance newspaper. And he championed the rights of women and children. Like Matilda's mother, he believed in freedom for all. The two sometimes took Matilda to political meetings, educated her well, and she became a woman of strong opinions. Carpenter writes:

"I have frequently been asked what first turned my thoughts towards woman's rights," Matilda wrote later. "I think I was born with a hatred of oppression, and, too, in my father's house, I was trained in the anti-slavery ranks." In Matilda's youth, no organization existed to fight for the rights of women, but she came to realize that the reform strategies that worked for one group could work for others, too.

Matilda saw the limitations for women of her time, and she herself came up hard against the patriarchy when she was refused entrance to medical school, despite a fine education, means, and a passion for the field. Her crime was being female.

At age eleven, Matilda joined a Christian church, but as time went on, she rejected many of the ideas she heard there, especially the story of Adam and Eve. "The Christian Church...is based upon the fact of woman servitude; upon the theory that woman brought sin and death into the world, and that therefore she was punished by being placed in a condition of inferiority to man."

Eventually, her scholarship and vocal opinions on this topic may have been a factor in the turning away from her that occurred in the 1870s, by which time she had long been a public figure for women's suffrage. And there may have been a clash of personalities and ambitions, too.

She had been, quite literally, one of the three main founders of the movement, along with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. They worked together to organize and publicize national meetings, wrote policy papers and met with officials and made public appearances together. Matilda's near-invisibility in the histories of that movement is a surprising fall, when the other two women are yet revered. Carpenter here goes some distance in righting that wrong. And her book convincingly argues that it is those same two women, Anthony and Stanton, who are most responsible for banishing Gage.

Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist is a fascinating look at the nascent women's movement of the 19th century, and at a powerful figure in that movement, who was in danger of being forgotten. It also resonates in the twenty-first century, as resistance to women's equality continues, and differences of religion, lifestyle, and class, and competition, still muddy the water for activist women. The author has given us some insights that could be put to use today.

Further, Carpenter restates with fresh vigor the significance of the early feminists, the challenges they faced, and their continuing impact. We need the reminder. She allows Matilda's powerful words to reach us again: "The longer I work, the more I see that woman's cause is the world's cause."

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Flavie F.
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
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This book is amazing. Old pictures and a lot of researches about Matilda. I highly recommend it.
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