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Clarina Nichols - was set apart from other th century women activistsxboth physically and emotionally As one of the few feminists to follow the nationxs westward expansion Nichols was separated from the womenxs movement just as it began to flourish under the leadership of Susan B Anthony Elizabeth Cady Stanton and other Easterners Unlike many activists Nichols personally experienced some of the most troubling heartbreaks and hardships that a married woman of her day could know This hard-won knowledge led her to sacrifice both health and financial well-being to right the wrongs that were tolerated in her time Driven by a deep inner need to end the mistreatment of women Clarina Nichols left the comforts of her Vermont home and moved West to the wild frontier of Bleeding Kansas where her sons fought alongside John Brown and she helped shaped the statexs new Constitution to free slaves and give women rights they had no where else in America Nowxfor the first timexthe story of Clarina Nichols comes alive thanks to Diane Eickhoff whose meticulous six-year quest to collect and analyze Nicholsxs scattered writings and papers has yielded a richer understanding of this remarkable pioneer Revolutionary Heart The Life of Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Womenxs Rights is an original piece of scholarship praised by academic historians yet it is written for general readers like the thousands of people who have heard Eickhoff perform Nicholsxs speeches at chautauquas and other humanities events Amply illustrated with detailed notes and an appendix that includes a concise history of the early womenxs movement Revolutionary Heart is more than an engaging biography it is a window into an unjustly overlooked period in American history about the three great th century reform movementsxabolition womenxs rights and temperance.
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Diane Eickhoff has taught in a one-room schoolhouse, worked for civil rights and women's rights, edited textbooks, served as a public relations director, and published widely as a freelance writer over three decades. Now, thanks to her work on Clarina Nichols and the early women's rights movement, Diane Eickhoff has added more lines to her résumé: award-winning biographer, humanities scholar, captivating performer. Raised on her family's farm in Minnesota, Eickhoff has lived in New York City, Chicago, and her current home of Kansas City, where she moved with her husband in 1997. Published Works: Revolutionary Heart: Clarina Nichols and the Pioneering Crusade for Women's Rights, Quindaro Press, 2006; Frontier Freedom Fighter: Clarina Nichols and the Early Women's Rights Movement, (audiobook) , Quindaro Press, 2006Awards: Winner, First Place, Kansas Notable Book, 2007 (Kansas Center for the Book) ; Book of the Year Award in Biography, 2007 (Foreword Magazine) ; Finalist in Nonfiction, Kansas City Star and The Writer's Place Award for best books by Missouri and Kansas authors; Ben Franklin Awards, finalist, biography/autobiography, 2007; IPPY finalist, biography, 2007.
