U.S.Women Who Ran for Political Office Before 1920
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 Belva A. Lockwood |
 Jeannette Rankin |
 Anne Martin |
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Lucy Boston: Or Woman's Rights and Spiritualism was published in 1855, by Fred Folio [pseudo.], as a satire on the follies of spritualism, as well as the woman's rights movement. With the aid of the spirits and a gullible public, woman's rights activist Lucy Boston is elected "Governoress" and women take over the entire New York State legislature with disastrous results. Despite real previous organizational experience in movements for social reform, Folio imagines that women would have no idea how to govern. Admidst the ruins, women come to their senses, retire from public office, once again leaving men in charge. Lucy marries and "was inaugurated Governoress of the domestic circle, in a village boarding-house, according to design" [page 405]. The full text of this book is available on Google Books. |
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