One Woman's Work for Farm Women: The Story of Mary A. Mayo's Part in Rural Social Movements

About this film

LibriVox recording of One Woman's Work for Farm Women: The Story of Mary A. Mayo's Part in Rural Social Movements by Jennie Buell. Read in English by Ted Lienhart. This is a short biography of Mary Mayo, covering her work with rural farm women in Michigan and beyond in the last quarter of the 19th century. She used the Grange (the Patrons of Husbandry) farmers' organization to reach women on farms and in the countryside, who often lived isolated lives, having little contact with social organizations active in cities and towns. She promoted education for women and cooperative work on a range of other issues and objectives to improve the lives of rural women and children. - Summary by Ted Lienhart For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org . M4B Audiobook (48MB)

Directors & creators

Jennie Buell

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;michigan social history; national patrons of husbandry (grange); women in michigan history; michigan rural history; michigan women's education

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