Congratulations Mrs. Hayward (1907)

AUTHOR: Neff, Flora Trueblood Bennett

PUBLICATION: “Congratulations Mrs. Hayward [Letter to the Editor].” The Vegetarian Magazine  Vol. X, no. 12 (April 1907): 16-17.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015074774574&view=1up&seq=19
 
KEYWORDS: animals, animal welfare, social reform, women's rights, Temperance

 

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SUMMARY (Bryn Skibo, edited Ridvan Askin & Deborah Madsen):

In this very short piece, Neff explicitly advocates for intersectional social reform, including animal welfare and veganism. She congratulates Mrs. Mary Smith Hayward on her “defense of bird life at the U.S. convention of the Woman’s National Suffrage Association” of 1907 (16). The letter consists of Neff's advocacy of intersectional social reform and activism: “Why can’t we be rounded out reformers? Why do we make one reform topic a hobby and forget all the others? Mercy, Prohibition, Vegetarianism, Woman’s Suffrage and Peace would make Old Earth a paradise, and yet the majority advocate but one, if any, of these” (16-17). On this point, see also Along Life’s Pathways and the inscription under the section “Stray Thoughts”: “He who endorses but one line of progress deserves to be called ‘crank;’ he who promotes many, a philanthropist” (14).

 

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How to cite this page:
Skibo, Bryn. 2024. "Congratulations Mrs. Hayward [summary]." Vegan Literary Studies: An American Textual History, 1776-1900. Edited by Deborah Madsen. University of Geneva. <Date accessed.> <https://www.unige.ch/vls/bibliography/author-bibliography/neff-flora-trueblood-bennett-1858-1943/congratulations-mrs-hayward-1907>.