Woman Suffrage Leaflet

Woman Suffrage Leaflet

Women's Suffrage Movement

The American Woman Suffrage Association was officially enstated in 1869 created by Lucy Stone, Henry B. Blackwell, Julia Ward Howe, and T.W. Higginson. Published by the American Woman Suffrage Association, Olive Schreiner first released "Three Dreams in the Desert" in the Woman Suffrage Leaflet, before publishing a longer version known as "Three Dreams in the Desert under a Mimosa-Tree" in her book "Dreams". Women would pass her allegories around in meetings, discussing not only the importance of her allegories but also the correlations that pertained to the stories and their movement. Schreiner believed in the equality of both women and race. Her writing of "Three Dreams in a Desert" discusses of a search for the Land of Freedom, the land that men could so easily arrive unto but women struggled to finally get to. She discusses the possibility of this land. This hopeful idea of equality truly resonated with the suffragettes because they were hoping for the same equality and respect that men already received. Their goal was to eventually reach this land with the complete knowledge that the road ahead was not an easy one.

Olive Schreiner

Boston: American Woman Suffrage Association

American Woman's Suffrage Association

September 1, 1889

Leaflet