Woman in the Reformation (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Woman in the Reformation

The following sketches, many of which have ap peared in the Luffiemn Observer, do not aim at histor ical research, nor do they lay claim to minute, critical investigation. In the labor required to collect the ma terial, the delving into old books, and other tongues, accuracy has been carefully maintained, but there has been no attempt to add to historical lore. The aim of the work has lain in the desire to speak for woman. In the Nineteenth Century, when the labor and power of woman is meeting its highest recognition, a truth of acknowledgment never before acceded - in such an age it is well to look into the past, into the great crises of the ages, and bring to light the service performed by her then, which has been hidden, obscured, unnoted, and uncared for. It is due to the women of the neglected age, that we, of a broader time, render them the debt of honor denied them in their lives. This tribute we bring, and breathe into this aim the ardent desire that such a.

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