Anna A. - Gordon | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

The biographer Anna Gordon was Frances Willard's private secretary for twenty-one years. Frances was an American educator who devoted herself to the temperance movement. She aided in organizing the Prohibition party, and she was the first President of the National Council of Women. Contents: Ancestral Gifts; Childhood; Student Life; Religious Development; Teacher, Preceptress, Dean; A Traveler Abroad; Choice of a Career; Organizer and Leader of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union; Founder of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union; A Great Mother; In the Mother Country; Answering Armenia's Cry; Old Haunts and Homes Revisited; Nearing the Heavenly Home. Illustrated.