Böcker av Elizabeth Oakes Smith

"Woman and Her Needs" is a book written by Elizabeth Oakes Smith. It was published in 1851 and contains 10 essays that were originally published in early feminist magazines. The book is a supporter of the women's movement and expresses many of the feminist arguments which became popular later in the century. The essays focus on the independence of women from men, both materially and spiritually.

This edition recovers Elizabeth Oakes Smith's successful 1842 novel The Western Captive; or, The Times of Tecumseh and includes many of Oakes Smith's other writings about Native Americans, including short stories, legends, and autobiographical and biographical sketches. The Western Captive portrays the Shawnee leader as an American hero and the white heroine's spiritual soulmate; in contrast to the later popular legend of Tecumseh's rejected marriage proposal to a white woman, Margaret, the "captive" of the title, returns Tecumseh's love and embraces life apart from white society. These texts are accompanied by selections from Oakes Smith's Woman and Her Needs and her unpublished autobiography, from contemporary captivity narratives and biographies of William Henry Harrison depicting the Shawnee, and from writings by her colleagues Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft.