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Nature's Aristocracy - A Plea for the Oppressed (Paperback, annotated edition)
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Nature's Aristocracy - A Plea for the Oppressed (Paperback, annotated edition)
Series: Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers
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In 1871 Jennie Collins became one of the first working-class
American women to publish a volume of her own writings: "Nature's
Aristocracy." Merging autobiography, social criticism,
fictionalized vignettes, and feminist polemics, her book examines
the perennial problem of class in America. Collins loosely
structures her series of sketches around the argument that
nineteenth-century U.S. society, by deviating dangerously from the
ideals set forth in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, had
created a corrupt aristocracy and a gulf between the rich and the
poor that the United States' founders had endeavored to prevent.
Collins's text serves as a mouthpiece for the little-heard voices
of nineteenth-century poor and laboring women, employing sarcasm,
irony, and sentimentality in condemning the empty philanthropic
gestures of aristocratic capitalists and calling for justice
instead of charity as a means to elevate the poor from their
destitution. She also explores the necessity of suffrage for female
workers who, while expected to work alongside men as their equals
in labor, were hampered by lower wages and lack of control by their
exclusion from the voting process.
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