The Most Dangerous Woman in America, a Review of Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness
The Most Dangerous Woman in America
Reviewed by Jo Freeman
Mother Jones: Raising Cain and Consciousness
by Simon Cordery
Published by University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM; ©2010, 213 pp.
Mary Harris Jones was a late bloomer. Only in her seventh decade did she became the legendary Mother Jones, a paid organizer for the United Mine Workers who was labeled the most dangerous woman in America in 1902.
It would be accurate to call her 'mythical' if only because so many of the stories surrounding her and which she told about herself were in fact myths. One of the tasks Cordery takes on in this book is to separate fact from fiction, though he concludes that the actual facts are sometimes less important than the myths.
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A true relation of a most desperate murder, committed upon the body of Sir John Tindall Knight, one of the maisters of the Chancery; who with a pistoll charged with 3. bullets, was slaine going into his chamber within Lincolnes-Inne, the 12. day of November, by one John Barterham Gent: Which Barterham afterwards hanged himselfe in the Kinges-Bench in Southwarke, on Sunday being the 17. day following. London, 1617. Shelfmark STC 24435.
Thomas Fella. A booke of diverse devices: A labouring man sleepeth sweetly, whether it be little or much he eateth, but the abundance of the riche will not suffer him to sleepe, meate maketh men to laughe, and wyne maketh the heart merie, but unto money are all things obedient. Manuscript, ca. 1585-1622. Shelfmark V.a. 311.
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