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Elizabeth Upham Yates (1857-1942) was a nationally known reformer
in the United States in the fields of temperance, women's suffrage,
simple living, and missionary work. The Life and Times of Elizabeth
Upham Yates: A Crusader for Women's Suffrage, Temperance, and
Missionary Work documents Yates's life from her coastal Maine
origins through her missionary activities in China in the 1880s to
her political career in the 1920s. Upon her return from China to
the United States, Yates's reputation grew as a master orator who
stirred the suffrage spirit on campaign trails across the country.
In 1920, the first year that women could campaign for office in
Rhode Island, she ran for the Democratic ticket for lieutenant
governor, earning 50,000 votes. She railed against jingoists like
Theodore Roosevelt in the New York Times and chastised male
political leadership for ignoring the lynching crisis. During her
long career, her suffrage sisters memorialized her as a "prophet
and a dreamer." Shannon M. Risk draws on sources ranging from
regional histories and shipping passenger manifests to archival
papers at the Library of Congress and Yates's own writing to shed
new light on this suffragist's life and work.
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