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The Selected Works of Ora Eddleman Reed collects the writings of
Ora Eddleman Reed with an introduction that contextualizes her as
an author, a publishing pioneer, a New Woman, and a person with a
complicated lineage. “Little Writer” Ora V. Eddleman (pseudonym
Mignon Schrieber) was only eighteen when she published her first
work in the Indian Territory newspaper Twin Territories, which she
edited for much of its brief run. This publication promoted the
literary works of Muskogee Creek poet Chinnubbie Harjo (Alexander
Posey), Cherokee historian Joshua Ross, and Muskogee Creek chief
Pleasant Porter. In the advice column “What the Curious Want to
Know,” Eddleman Reed answered readers from around the country who
had ignorant impressions of Indian Territory (and whose questions,
notably, she did not include). Such columns were accompanied by
pieces that amount to some of the earliest Native historiography by
an American woman claiming Indigenous heritage. Twin Territories
was directed at both Natives and non-Natives and had a national
readership. The heterogeneous form of the newspaper gave room for
healthy internal debate on controversial ideas like Indigenous
sovereignty and assimilation, affirming Native Americans as a
significant, diverse collective. In this first book of Eddleman
Reed’s work, Cari M. Carpenter and Karen L. Kilcup revive the
writings of an important author, publisher, and activist for
Cherokee rights.
Suffragist, lecturer, eugenicist, businesswoman, free lover, and
the first woman to run for president of the United States, Victoria
C. Woodhull (1838-1927) has been all but forgotten as a leading
nineteenth-century feminist writer and radical. "Selected Writings
of Victoria Woodhull" is the first multigenre, multisubject
collection of her materials, giving contemporary audiences a
glimpse into the radical views of this nineteenth-century woman who
advocated free love between consensual adults and who was labeled
"Mrs. Satan" by cartoonist Thomas Nast. Woodhull's texts reveal the
multiple conflicting aspects of this influential woman, who has
been portrayed in the past as either a disreputable figure or a
brave pioneer. This collection of letters, speeches, essays, and
articles elucidate some of the lesser-known movements and ideas of
the nineteenth century. It also highlights, through Woodhull's
correspondence with fellow suffragist Lucretia Mott, tensions
within the suffragist movement and demonstrates the changing
political atmosphere and role of women in business and politics in
the late nineteenth century. With a comprehensive introduction
contextualizing Woodhull's most important writing, this collection
provides a clear lens through which to view late nineteenth-century
suffragism, labor reform, reproductive rights, sexual politics, and
spiritualism.
Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (Northern Paiute) has long been recognized
as an important nineteenth-century American Indian activist and
writer. Yet her acclaimed performances and speaking tours across
the United States, along with the copious newspaper articles that
grew out of those tours, have been largely ignored and forgotten.
The Newspaper Warrior presents new material that enhances public
memory as the first volume to collect hundreds of newspaper
articles, letters to the editor, advertisements, book reviews, and
editorial comments by and about Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. This
anthology gathers together her literary production for newspapers
and magazines from her 1864 performances in San Francisco to her
untimely death in 1891, focusing on the years 1879 to 1887, when
Winnemucca Hopkins gave hundreds of lectures in the eastern and
western United States; published her book, Life among the Piutes:
Their Wrongs and Claims (1883); and established a bilingual school
for Native American children. Editors Cari M. Carpenter and Carolyn
Sorisio masterfully assemble these exceptional and long-forgotten
articles in a call for a deeper assessment and appreciation of
Winnemucca Hopkins's stature as a Native American author, while
also raising important questions about the nature of Native
American literature and authorship.
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