Suffrage Songs and Verses

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Suffrage Songs and Verses

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

EN·~32 minutes·28 chapters

Chapters

28 total

Transcriber’s Note

0:35

SHE WALKETH VEILED AND SLEEPING

0:19

COMING

0:41

LOCKED INSIDE

0:31

NOW

0:26

WOMEN OF TO-DAY

1:03

BOYS WILL BE BOYS

0:32

FOR FEAR

0:51

MOTHER TO CHILD

2:34

A QUESTION

0:15

Description

In this spirited compilation, the poet channels the surge of early‑century women's activism through verse that both sings and challenges. The opening pages echo the hush of a veiled existence and the first stir of consciousness, inviting listeners to feel the tension between restraint and emerging power. Each poem retains its original cadence, with occasional quirks of early printing that remind us of its historic roots.

Across the collection, voices shift from quiet yearning to resolute proclamation, tracing a journey from locked doors to a call for communal responsibility. The poet weaves personal motherhood, civic duty, and the promise of a balanced world into vivid images that still resonate today. Listeners will hear both the urgency of a movement on the brink and the timeless hope that empowerment can rewrite everyday life.

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Language

en

Duration

~32 minutes (30K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by MWS, Fay Dunn and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Release date

2018-04-06

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

1860–1935

A bold early feminist thinker, she turned fiction and social criticism into tools for questioning how women were expected to live. Best known today for "The Yellow Wallpaper," she also wrote influential nonfiction that challenged the economic and social limits placed on women.

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