Frances E. Willard: "Glimpses of Fifty Years", 1889

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1889: Frances E. Willard, Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman, . . . Written by Order of the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union (Chicago: H. J. Smith [for the Woman's Temperance Publication Association]). Willard also describes her "love" for two men, feelings which, from her published account, do not appear to have rivaled the intensity and depth of her feeling for women. Also see Mary Earhart Dillon, Frances Willard: From Prayers to Politics (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944), p. 82. On Willard's intimacies also see her brief biography in Notable American Women. Jonathan Ned Katz, Gay/Lesbian Almanac (NY: Harper & Row, 1983) pages ???

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