Book Excellence Awards and Susan Savion: on Matilda’s Women Movement

Book Excellence Awards is an international contest that provides unrivaled support to bring fame and recognition to champions and finalists. For numerous years, artists have risen to sensational heights and gathered remarkable sales with the aid of BEA. This season, they unearth one woman’s significant name who has been written out of history despite her sacrifices and efforts in the Suffrage Movement.

One of the most crucial breakthroughs throughout mankind’s social history is that of equality. For millenniums, women have been subdued by society simply because of archaic prejudices and idealism. Granting women the right to vote, and thereby the right to participate in the blessings of democracy, has led to game-changing progress which shall echo throughout the coming years.

The Women’s Suffrage Movement was a monumental endeavor that involved a complex array of intellectualism, time, dedication, sacrifice, and much more. For most who have devoted their lives to this, credit has not been given due. Worse, Gage’s part was written out of history on purpose.

Matilda Joslyn Gage was part of the triumvirate who pushed forward the Women’s Suffrage Movement, with the other two highlighted in history books: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She was a living voice for so many who were oppressed and she fought for more than suffrage, fearlessly positing other radical ideas to attain equality and for this, she was silenced.

Susan Savion, in “Quoting Matilda: The Words and History Of A Forgotten Suffragist,” has successfully brought to life the soul of this extraordinary woman. Matilda Joslyn Gage deserves so much more than a thoughtless one-liner or an item in a footnote. Gage’s son-in-law, L. Frank Baum, incorporated her ideas into his fourteen delightful Oz books. Her part in history deserves to be revealed to the masses.
 
 
“Quoting Matilda: The Words and History of a Forgotten Suffragist”
Written by: Susan Savion
Published by: Litfire Publishing
Published Date: April 19, 2016
Paperback: $ 16.00

About the Author:

Susan Savion is an accomplished educator, author, traveler, philanthropist, eco-warrior, artist, and poet who was born in southern Illinois very close to St. Louis. For the past dozen years, she has extensively toured the world from Europe, the Mediterranean, and across Asian-European borders for her academic and pleasure-filled endeavors. She finished her undergraduate studies at Illinois State University with a teaching degree and did her MS as a Reading Specialist at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville.

Having taught for 42 years, Susan Savion has guided students from kindergarten to adults, instructed in different areas from the rural to the city schools, and has taught goddess classes as well as many other classes at OASIS, programs for seniors over 50. She has also participated in several Sierra Club Service Project trips. As a lover of literature, she enjoys participating in several book clubs and is President Emeritus of Women Transcending Boundaries, an egalitarian community of women from many faith groups and cultural traditions who seek to nurture mutual respect and understanding.

For many years, she has been the newsletter editor for the Transpersonal Psychology Association of Syracuse. She fulfills her humanitarian mission by volunteering in Samaritan Centers, the Eastern Farmworkers Association, which supports itinerant farmers and low-income residents, and several interfaith groups supporting immigrants.

In between, she spends time with her daughters and grandchildren who live nearby.

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