02657cmm a2200349 4500 214799718 TxAuBib 20120507120000.0 090414s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780813173269 electronic bk. 0813173264 electronic bk. (OCoLC)318456577 N$T eng N$T OCLCQ EBLCP OCLCQ MHW E7B SFB TxAuBib Hay, Melba Porter, 1949- Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and the battle for a new South [electronic resource] / Melba Porter Hay ; foreword by Marjorie Julian Spruill. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, 2009. 1 online resource (xiv, 353 p.) : ill. Topics in Kentucky history Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-334) and index. "One great honored name," 1872-1889 -- "A thunder-bolt out of a clear sky," 1890-1896 -- "An unholy interest in reforming others," 1897-1900 -- "Our hope lies in the children," 1901-1904 -- "Whatever a woman can do-- in the long run she will do," 1905-1907 -- "Educational advance and school suffrage for women go hand in hand," 1908-1911 -- "Among the most brilliant advocates of votes for women in this country," 1912-1913 -- "An able speaker, a brilliant woman," 1914-1915 -- "I cannot keep her from doing more than she ought to do," 1916-1918 -- Kentucky's "most distinguished woman citizen," 1919-1920 -- Epilogue: "She belonged to Kentucky.". Kentucky native Madeline McDowell Breckinridge (1872-1920) was at the forefront of the suffrage movement at both the state and national levels. The great-granddaughter of Henry Clay and a descendant of several prominent Bluegrass families, Breckinridge inherited a sense of noblesse oblige that compelled her to speak for women's rights. However, it was her physical struggles and personal losses that transformed her from a privileged socialite into a selfless advocate for the disadvantaged. She devoted much of her life to the struggle for equal voting rights, but she also promoted the antituberc. Breckinridge, Madeline McDowell 1872-1920. Women United States Biography. Women Suffrage. Women United States History. Women's rights United States Biography. Political science. Political science. Political Process Elections. Social sciences. Electronic books. Topics in Kentucky history. https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=267818 EBSCOhost