Golden cables of sympathy

"Margaret McFadden describes the burgeoning avenues of communication in the nineteenth century that led to an explosion in the number of international contacts among women."--BOOK JACKET. "Particular attention is paid to five women whose decades of work helped give birth to the women's movement by century's end. These "mothers of the matrix" include Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton of the United States, Anna Doyle Wheeler of Ireland, Fredrika Bremer of Sweden, and Frances Power Cobbe of England. Despite their philosophic differences, these leaders recognized the value of friendship and advocacy among women and shared an affinity for bringing together people from different cultural settings."--BOOK JACKET.