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Birthdate: 1908-10-04
Date of death: 1995-03-25
Gender: female
Education: Swarthmore College
University of Oxford (Somerville College)
Occupations: editor
historian
feminist
Organizations: League of American Writers
Relationships: Flexner, Anne Crawford (mother)
Flexner, Abraham (father)
Short biography: Eleanor Flexner was a pioneer in the study of women's history. Her ground-breaking work, Century of Struggle: The Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States (1959), relates women’s efforts to achieve the right to vote to other 19th- and early 20th-century social, labor, and reform movements, most importantly the campaigns for equal education, the abolition of slavery, and temperance laws. At its publication, the book was hailed for its unprecedented, detailed accounts of individuals within a political movement.
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Georgetown, Kentucky, USA
Places of residence: New York, New York, USA
Place of death: Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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JenniferRobb 2,863 reviews

Mary Wollstonecraft;: A biography by Eleanor Flexner (1972-08-01) by Eleanor Flexner

For some reason, I kept confusing this subject with the lady who wrote Frankenstein--they are not the same as far as I can tell. Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for writing "A Vindication of Rights". This biography starts out with Mary's birth and childhood which were somewhat interesting, but once she gets into her writing stage, the biography style switched to a more academic style and was harder for me to want to read.

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mahallett 2,712 reviews

Mary Wollstonecraft by Eleanor Flexner

national book award nomination.
kind of boring. mary's life is awful but dull! she is mary shelley's mother.

Sep 20, 2017 (Edited)1 other review

PendleHillLibrary 3,298 reviews

Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States by Eleanor Flexner

"The distinguished historian of American feminism" (New York Review of Books) has revised and updated her classic work, long recognized as the landmark in the history of the women's rights movement in the United States. -- from book cover

Apr 21, 20262 other reviews

Jeanperry 51 reviews

Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States, Enlarged Edition by Eleanor Flexner