In addition to the author name noted by Jerome, several sources give the combined name
“The Rights of Woman”as the author.
– poem by Miss M E Mitchek B M Kimberly
Friday, September 7, 2018
Alice Oliver
We need a basic biography of Alice Oliver, the author of the poem Women's Mission in Poems of Dawn. The name may be a pseudonym.The original title was The Rights of Woman.
In addition to the author name noted by Jerome, several sources give the combined name
In addition to the author name noted by Jerome, several sources give the combined name
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Using the words of the poem I did a search and found the verses (with slight variations) turned up all over the place from the 1860s, usually attributed to a Reverend M Lowry.
The poem is a paean to women's role in the home. It contains such lines as:
The right to brighten earthly homes
With pleasant smiles and gentles tones.
As for matters outside the home...
If these be thine - why ask for more?
Thou hast enough to answer for!
Are these thy rights? Then murmur not
That woman's mission is thy lot.
The poem (with slight variations) appears to have been around since the late 1860s and seems to have been written by a man - Reverend M Lowry.
It is interesting to note that the 1890 edition of Poems and Hymns of Dawn does not include it. Poems and Hymns was edited by Maria Russell.
It then appears in the 1912 edition of Poems of Dawn as one of the extra poems. This book was edited by Gertrude Seibert. In her self-penned entry in Woman's Who's Who of America for 1914-1915, Gertude writes: "Opposed to woman's suffrage on Scriptural grounds."
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