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Where are the pictures I should have given to the world? Where my
record of the wrongs and outrages of my age; of the sorrows and
joys; the trials and triumphs, that should have been written amid
autumn and sunset glories in the eloquent faces and speaking forms
which have everywhere presented themselves, begging to be
interpreted? Why have I never put on canvas one pair of those
pleading eyes, in which are garnered the woes of centuries?
HALF A CENTURY is the autobiography of one of the original civil
rights advocates in America, a woman whose name has been forgotten,
but who helped set the stage for the social progress politics in
the later 19th century. As well as being an activist in the
campaign against slavery, Jane Grey Swisshelm spent much of her
adult life as an accomplished newspaper publisher and editor.
During the Civil War, she became a nurse in a Union hospital,
garnering the respect of doctors and officials because of her
tenacious desire to give only the best care to her patients. In her
position as editor she was one of the first women, if not the
first, to occupy such a position in the media. Not content with
simply reporting on the humanitarian issues of the day, she imbued
her newspapers with a strong political edge that made her more
renowned than many of her male colleagues. Swisshelm's criticisms,
which ignored the intricacies of ideology and moved into the realm
of denigrating perceived character flaws, made her famous, but
eventually caused serious harm to her career and personal life.
Where are the pictures I should have given to the world? Where my
record of the wrongs and outrages of my age; of the sorrows and
joys; the trials and triumphs, that should have been written amid
autumn and sunset glories in the eloquent faces and speaking forms
which have everywhere presented themselves, begging to be
interpreted? Why have I never put on canvas one pair of those
pleading eyes, in which are garnered the woes of centuries?
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