Jailed for Freedom

Jailed for Freedom
AuthorDoris Stevens
GenreHistory
Publication date
1920

Doris Stevens, suffragist, author of Jailed for Freedom

Jailed for Freedom is a book by Doris Stevens.[1] Originally published in 1920, it was reissued by New Sage Press in 1995 in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.[2] This commemorative edition was edited by Carol O'Hare to update the language for a modern audience.[3] Jailed for Freedom was reissued again in 2020 in a 100th anniversary edition.[4][5]

The Historical Journal of Massachusetts characterizes the book as "a lengthy and sympathetic account of these events".[6] Johanna Neumann in The Wall Street Journal ranked Jailed for Freedom number one on her list of the five best books on the fight for women's suffrage.[7] Jailed for Freedom is extensively quoted in Encyclopædia Britannica's Annals of American History in the essay "Suffragettes Criminals or Political Prisoners?"[8]

Silent Sentinels, suffragists picket President Woodrow Wilson in the White House
  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :0 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Mann, Judy (25 Aug 1995). "We Stand on the Shoulders of Giants". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-09-28.
  3. ^ Winegar, Karin (8 May 1995). "Remembering the struggle // Women's suffrage battle dramatized with 1920 book". Star-Tribune Minneapolis.
  4. ^ Stevens, Doris. Jailed for Freedom: A First-Person Account of the Militant Fight for Women's Rights. United States: Running Press, 2020.
  5. ^ "The Political Is Personal". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 266, no. 36. 6 Sep 2019. p. 41.
  6. ^ Kenneally, James. "'I Want to Go to Jail': The Woman's Party Reception for President Wilson in Boston, 1919". Historical Journal of Massachusetts. 45 (1 (Winter 2017)): Footnote 4.
  7. ^ Neumann, Johanna (9 September 2017). "Five Best: A Personal Choice: Johanna Neuman on the Fight for Women's Suffrage". Books. The Wall Street Journal. p. C10.
  8. ^ "Suffragettes Criminals or Political Prisoners?". Annals of American History. Encyclopædia Britannica. 1968. ASIN B000HA2E48.