Recovers the life of a woman who transformed herself and remade America's labor movement along the way. Thorough biography of this remarkable character, historian Elliott Gorn In Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America, the first In a country premised on the inalienable right to reinvent yourself, hers was one of the most remarkable acts of "children," and started calling herself Mother Jones. Stillĭressed in the black frock of mourning, now graced with gray hair, sheĪdded a few years to her age, referred to striking workers as her Into one of the most compelling figures in American history. By the end of the century, she had transformed herself That summer,Įverything changed when her husband and all of her children died in aĭevastating yellow fever epidemic. In a rundown Irish Catholic neighborhood in Memphis. Thirty-year-old former schoolteacher, married with four children, living She was an unlikely candidate to become America's most famous Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America by Elliott J. APA style: Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America.Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America." Retrieved from MLA style: "Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America." The Free Library.
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