PREFACE.
WHAT IS IN THE BOOK.
PICTURES IN THE BOOK.
MARRIED TO JOSIAH ALLEN.
ABOUT JOSIAH AND THE CHILDREN.
AN UNMARRIED FEMALE.
HAVING MY PICTURE TOOK.
OUR SURPRIZE PARTIES.
A DAY OF TROUBLE.
THE MINISTER'S BEDQUILT.
A ALLEGORY ON WIMMEN'S RIGHTS.
A AXIDENT.
THE JONESVILLE SINGIN' QUIRE.
MISS SHAKESPEARE'S EARRINGS.
A NIGHT OF TROUBLES.
4th OF JULY IN JONESVILLE.
SIMON SLIMPSEY AND HIS MOURNFUL FOREBODIN'S.
FREE LOVE LECTURES.
ELDER WESLEY MINKLE'S DONATION PARTY.
WIMMEN'S SPEAH.
A TOWER TO NEW YORK DISCUSSED.
GOVERNED BY PRINCIPLES.
MEETING GRANT AND COLFAX.
AT NEW YORK, ASTERS'ES TAVERN.
MEET DR. MARY WALKER.
INTERVIEW WITH THEODORE AND VICTORY.
A WIMMEN'S RIGHTS' LECTURER.
ALEXANDER'S STORE.
A HARROWIN' OPERATION.
A VISIT TO HORACE.
A SEA VOYAGE.
OLD FRIENDS IN NEW GARMENTS.
HORACE AND JOSIAH.
Transcriber’s Note: Obvious printer and punctuation errors have been corrected, but dialect, unconventional and inconsistent spellings (haint/hain’t, their/thier, etc) are left untouched.
Cover image created by the transcriber, and placed in the public domain.
MY OPINIONS
AND
BETSEY BOBBET’S.
DESIGNED AS
A BEACON LIGHT,
TO GUIDE WOMEN TO LIFE, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS,
BUT WHICH MAY BE READ BY
MEMBERS OF THE STERNER SECT,
WITHOUT INJURY TO THEMSELVES
OR THE BOOK.
BY
JOSIAH ALLEN’S WIFE.
“Who will read the Book, Samantha, when it is rote?”
PUBLISHED BY SUBSCRIPTION ONLY,
HARTFORD, CONN.:
AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1884.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by the
AMERICAN PUBLISHING COMPANY,
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
This Book is Dedicated
To my own Lawful Pardner,
JOSIAH.
Whom (although I have been his Consort
for a little upwards of 14 years)
I still Love with a
CAST-IRON DEVOTEDNESS.
