"Gail Hamilton" was Mary Abigail Dodge (1833-1896), an American essayist who published at least eight books between 1863 and 1872. While works like Gala Days emphasize humor and sentimentality, Woman's Wrongs is her furious answer to criticisms of the women's rights movement. Specifically, it's an answer to the Rev. John Todd's Woman's Rights, a 27-page pamphlet presenting the usual 19th-century objections to women's suffrage and equality. Todd's argument is built around Christianity, a tactic Hamilton found especially noxious. "The Mohammedan and the Mormon doctrines are that women have no life in the next world except through their husbands," she notes here. "The Christian doctrine is that they have none in this." Woman's Rights and Woman's Wrongs were reprinted in one volume by the Arno Press in 1972.

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