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Friends Sponsor Gifford Lecture

Wiki Markup"_Journal\! I'm not honest with you\! I find it next to impossible to be so. Never more than twice have I written out my heart any where._ \ [sic\]"

Frances Willard entered these lines in her journal of October 1861 at the age of twenty-two. In her new book, Writing Out My Heart, Selections from the Journal of Frances E. Willard, 1855-96, Carolyn DeSwarte Gifford has presented the inner voice of Frances Willard, revealing the most private thoughts of the woman who became one of the most powerful and well-respected leaders of the women's reform movement during the nineteenth century.

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