MARIETTA HOLLEY: GENERAL COMMENTARY

KATE H. WINTER (ESSAY DATE 1984)

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GWENDOLYN B. GWATHMEY (ESSAY DATE 1994)

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FROM THE AUTHOR

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN JOSIAH ALLEN AND SAMANTHA ALLEN ON A WOMAN'S PLACE

He looked almost mortified, but still he murmured as if mechanically. "It's the wimmen's place to marry and not to vote."

"Josiah Allen," says I, "Anybody would think to hear you talk that a woman couldn't do but just one of the two things any way—marry or vote, and had got to take her choice of the two at the pint of the bayouet. And anybody would think to hear you go on, that if women could live in any other way, she wouldn't be married, and you couldn't get her to." Says I looking at him shrewdly, "if marryin' is such a dreadful nice thing for wimmen I don't see what you are afraid of. You men act kinder guilty about it, and I don't wonder at it, for take a bad husband and there ain't no kind of slavery to be compared to wife slavery."

Holley, Marietta. Excerpt from "A Allegory on Wimmen's Rights." In her My Opinions and Betsey Bobbet's. Toronto: Robertson's Cheap Series, 1877.

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