Woman Who Never Fails, The

Publication

Jacksonville History Center

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

Library.911

Description

ix, 62 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 26 cm Woman Who Never Fails Grace Wilbur Trout and Illinois Suffrage by Carolyn Poplett. Contents: Personal introduction to Grace Wilbur Trout -- Victory in Illinois -- Starting life and a family -- A Political consciousness -- New force -- On to Springfield -- Fair play -- Securing the future of siffrage -- Presidential politics -- Campaigning for a constitution -- Eternal heroine -- New challenges -- CPEL members from Oak Park, circa 1910-1912 -- Timeline of the Illinois Woman Suffrage Movement -- Selected bibliography. "Lauded as the "supreme ideal of cultivated womanliness", Grace Wilbur Trout was a wife, mother, activist, orator, organizer, and politician. After "retiring" to Jacksonville, Florida, she found new issues to occupy her time and was hailed as "the most public-spirited citizen" in Jacksonville, where she secured adoption of a city plan and zoning ordinances.

Collection

Library

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Trout, Grace Wilbur., Suffragists -- United States -- Biography., Women -- Suffrage -- Illinois -- History., Women's rights -- Illinois -- History., Suffrage -- Illinois -- History.

Publication Details

Author

Poplett, Carolyn O., Porucznik, Mary Ann

Edition

Limited Edition

Publisher

The Historical Oak Park and River Forest

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Oak Park, Illinois

Call No.

HQ 1413 .T76 P60 2000

ISBN

0966792610