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Women in the 19th Century
We would like to make this site the most comprehensive collection of links on women in the 19th century on the net. We welcome links to all sites on all facets of 19th century women's lives regardless of race, color, creed, educational attainment, condition of servitude, religion, country of origin, nationality, marital status, economic class, yada, yada, yada on all aspects of women's lives (art, literature, domestic life, medicine and health, law, history, employment, . . .) If you have an appropriate site and would like it to be listed here, send your URL to sunshine@pinn.net and mention The Gage Page Thanks Sunny |
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Abolition, African-American Women, and American Slavery
Abortion/Contraception As Resistance to Slavery Bibliography
African-American Women, Special Collections Library, Duke University
African-American Women and Their Role in the Civil War
The Anti-Lynching Crusade of Ida B. Wells
Boston African American National Historic Site
Cathay Williams: Buffalo Soldier
- Chronology On The History Of Slavery
- 1619 To 1789
1790 To 1829
1830 To The End
- E-texts of the African American Women Writers
- of the 19th Century Collection (New York Public Library - note: print copies of most of these works are available from Oxford University Press as part of the Schomberg Library of Nineteenth Century Black Women Writers Series, includes works by more than 40 authors ranging from first person narratives and other non-fiction works to fiction, such as, poetry, short stories, novels)
First Person Narratives
Lewis Clarke discusses the impact of slavery on family life (1846)
Elizabeth [1766-c. 1866] A Coloured Minister of the Gospel, Born in Slavery (Philadelphia: Tract Assoc. of Friends, 1889) (HTML and TEI at UNC or (HTML at nypl.org)
Margaret Garner kills her daughter rather than see her returned to slavery (1876)
An overseer attempts to rape Josiah Henson's mother (1877)
Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the scenes (1868)
Pickard, Kate E. R. (fl.1856) The Kidnapped and the Ransomed: Being the Personal Recollections of Peter Still and his Wife "Vina," after Forty Years of Slavery (Syracuse: William T. Hamilton,1856) (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Picquet, Louisa (1828-) Louisa Picquet, Octoroon: The or Inside Views of Southern Domestic Life (illustrated HTML at nypl.org)
Laura Spicer learns that her husband, who had been sold away, has taken another wife (1869)
Stewart, Maria W. (1803-1879) Productions of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart, Presented to the First African Baptist Church & Society, of the City of Boston (illustrated HTML at nypl.org)
Taylor, Susie King (1848-1912) Reminiscences of My Life in Camp With the 33d United States Colored Troops, Late 1st S.C. Volunteers (illustrated HTML at nypl.org)
Thompson, Mary W. (fl.1851) Broken Gloom: Sketches of the History, Character, and Dying Testimony of Beneficiaries of the Colored Home, in the City of New-York (New York: J.F. Trow, 1851) (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
Harriet Tubman sneaks into the South to free slaves (1863, 1865)
The Narrative of Bethany Veney, A Slave Woman (1889)
Margaret Ward follows the North Star to freedom (1879)
Slave Narratives at University of Virginia
Harriet Tubman & The Underground Railroad (for children and educators)
Ida B. Wells: "People like this will never give up"
Lucy Parsons
Lucy Parsons: Woman of Will
Lydia Marie Child (1802-80)
Madame C.J. Walker (1867 - 1919)
The Mining Company: Slavery
Needle in a CyberStack - the InfoFinder (go to the 3rd section for lots of links on slavery and abolitionism, site designed for kids and educators)- Primary Sources
- Anti-Slavery Fair
Barrie, Fannie, "The Intellectual Progress Of The Colored Women Of The United States Since The Emancipation Proclamation" from pp. 696-711 in The World's Congress of Representative Women, May Wright Sewall, ed. (Chicago: Rand McNally, 1894).
Congress title page
Beecher, Catharine Esther, An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, With Reference to the Duty of American Females (second edition, 1837) (HTML at Virginia)
Child, Lydia Maria, "Slavery's Pleasant Homes" (1843) And Other Writings from The Liberty Bell
The Negro Woman's "Appeal to Her White Sisters"
Prudence Crandall documents: entries from Samuel May's journal
Grimké, Angelina E. Appeal To The Christian Women of the South, 1836
Grimke, Angelina Emily, Appeal to Christian Women of the South, New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1836
Grimke, Angelina, Appeal to Christian Women, 1836.
Grimke - Beecher Exchange
Pillsbury, Rev. Parker, Acts of the Anti-Slavery Apostles Concord, N.H., 1883
Pillsbury, Parker, Woman's Rights Convention and People of Color, The North Star, December 5, 1850
Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society (Archives)
Sojourner Truth: "Ain't I a Woman Speech"
Stamp on Black History: Homepage
Women Resisted
Woman's Suffrage and the Abolition Movement (Excellent!)
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Archives (Individuals and Families)
Archives (Individual Institutions)
Archives (Meta Sites)
Delaware, University of, Library Women's Studies: A Guide to Internet Resources
H-WOMENArchival and Manuscript Collection
MTSU (Middle Tennessee State University Library, Ken Middleton)
Repositories of Primary Sources: University of Iowa (links to 3800 archival collections throughout the world)
UTSA(University of Texas at San Antonio) Women's History in Archival Collections
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Art (individuals)
Lady Laura Alma Tadema (nee Laura Theresa Epps) (1852-1909)
Amelia Bowerley (Amelia Bauerle) (d.1916)
Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale RWS (1871/2-1945)
Kate Elizabeth Bunce (1858-1927)
Lady Elizabeth Southerden Butler RI (1846-1933)
Margaret Isabel Dicksee (1858-1903)
Mary Ellen Edwards (Mrs Staples) (1839-c.1910) (illustrator)
Elizabeth Adela Armstrong Forbes
Georgina Cave Gaskin (1868-1934)
Kate Greenaway RWS (1846-1901)
LouiseJopling RBA (1843-1933)
AngelicaKauffman RA (1741-1807)
Lucy Elizabeth Kemp-Welch RI RBA (1869-1958)
Jessie Marion King (c1875-1949)
Celia Levetus (fl 1896-1901)
Clara, Ellen, Hilda and Henrietta Montalba
Berthe Morisot (1841 - 1895)
Mary J. Newill (1860-1947)
Marianne North (1830-1890)
Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903) French artist
Henrietta Rae (Mrs Ernest Normand) (1859-1928)
Amy Sawyer (1863-1945)
Rebecca Solomon (1832-1886)
Marianne Stokes
Helen Stratton (active 1891-1925)
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Art (Collections)
Bibliography
Biography
Mary Anning (1799-1847), Paleontologist and fossil hunter
Alva, That Vanderbilt-Belmont Woman
Emily Blackwell (1826-1910)
Mary Elizabeth Bowser
Hijacking of American Education: Part 3 - Sarah Margaret Fuller
Sarah and Angelina Grimke
Angelina Grimké Weld (1805-1879) and Sarah Moore Grimké (1792-1873) (great! - includes commentary on Appeal to the Christian Women of the South and Letters to Catherine Beecher and Letters on the Equality of the Sexes)
Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke
Judith Sargent Murray Society
Ernestine Rose (1810 - 1892)
Frances Wright (1795-1852)
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Biographical dictionaries (General/ Multiple Topics)
19th Century Sources
Brockett, L. P. (Linus Pierpont), (1820-1893) Woman, her rights, wrongs, privileges and responsibilities; containing a sketch of her condition in all ages and countries ...
Clement, Jesse ed.: Noble deeds of American women: with biographical sketches of some of the more prominent. With an introduction by Mrs. L. H. Sigourney.
Duyckinck, Evert A. (Evert Augustus), 1816-1878.: Portrait gallery of eminent men and women of Europe and America ... With biographies. By Evert A. Duyckinck ... Illustrated with highly finished steel engravings from original portraits by the most celebrated artists ..
Parton, James, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, Prof. James M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, etc. Eminent women of the age being narratives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present generation. Richly illustrated with fourteen steel engravings.
Webster, Thomas (1873) Woman Man's Equal
American Women: The Pioneers - a Photo Essay by Time/Life
Biographies of Historical Women: University of Maryland
British 19th Century Royalty
Carnegie Mellon University Women's Center Library
Distinguished Women of Past and Present
Early Male Suffragists
First Ladies of the United States of America
Living Vignettes of Women from the Past
National Women's Hall of Fame
Notable Women Searchable Database
People in Oberlin's History
Pre-20th Century Human Rights Activists
Southern Women at War, Southern Women in Literature
Women in History non-profit corporation
Historical Figures
Why Did Some Men Support the Women's Rights Movement in the 1850s, and How Did Their Ideas Compare to those of Women in the Movement?
Women of the Old West (Calamity Jane, Annie Oakley , Belle Starr)
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Civil War and Military
Captain Barb's History of Women Veterans
Civil War Women: Primary Sources on the Internet (great!)First Kansas Volunteer Infantry And Kansas Women's Relief Corps
First Person Accounts of the War Years and the Antebellum South
Ames, Mary (1831-1903), From a New England Woman's Diary in Dixie in 1865 (illustrated HTML at TEI at UNC)
Laura Elizabeth Lee Battle, Forget-me-nots of the Civil War; A Romance, Containing Reminiscences and Original Letters of Two Confederate Soldiers, St. Louis, Mo.: Press A. R. Fleming Printing Co. [c1909]
Letitia M. Burwell, A Girl's Life in Virginia Before the War (1895)
Belle Boyd (1844-1900), Belle Boyd in Camp and Prison, London: Saunders, Otley, and Co., 1865
Virginia Clay-Clopton (1825-1915), A Belle of the Fifties; Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905
Septima Maria Levy Collis (1842 - 1917), A Woman's War Record, 1861-1865 (illustrated HTML at UNC)
Adelaide Stuart Dimitry, War-time Sketches, Historical and Otherwise, New Orleans: Louisiana Printing Co. Press, [1911]
Sarah Emma E. Edmundson, Nurse and spy in the Union army : comprising the adventures and experiences of a woman in hospitals, camps and battle-fields
Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835-1930), Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth (1919)
Caroline Howard Gilman (1794-1888), Recollections of a Southern Matron, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838
Rose O'Neal Greenhow (1814-1864), My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington, London: R. Bentley, l863
Mrs. Burton Harrison (1843-1920), Recollections Grave and Gay, New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1911
Susan Ravenel Jervey (b. 1840) and Charlotte St. J. Ravenel, Two Diaries from Middle St. John's,Berkeley, South Carolina, February-May, 1865, St. John's Hunting Club, 1921
Belle Kearney (1863-1939), A Slaveholder's Daughter
Frances Butler Leigh (1838-1910), Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation Since the War London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1883
Cora Mitchel, Reminiscences of the Civil War, Providence: Snow & Farnham, 1916?
Mrs. Irby Morgan, How it Was; Four Years Among the Rebels, Nashville, Tenn.: Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1892
Phoebe Yates Levy Pember, Southern Woman's Story (pub. 1879)
N. B. (Nancy Bostick) De Saussure (1837-1915), Old Plantation Days; Being Recollections of Southern Life Before the Civil War
Louise Wigfall Wright (1846-1915) A Southern Girl in '61: The War-Time Memories of a Confederate Senator's Daughter
Loreta Janeta Velazquez, The Woman in Battle: A Narrative of the Exploits, Adventures and Travels of Madame Loreta Janeta Velazquez, Otherwise Known as Lieutenant Harry T. Buford, Confederate States Army, by C. J. Worthington (1876, illustrated HTML at UNC)
Illinois Women and the Civil War
Primary Sources
Frank Moore, Women of the war; their heroism and self-sacrifice (1866)
Mary C. Vaughan, Woman's Work in the Civil War: A Record of Heroism, Patriotism and Patience, by Linus P. Brockett (1867, page images at MOA)
(Modern) Amazons
More About Women In War
Remember the Ladies (Women, including African-American Women) during the Civil War)
(Southern) Women and the Civil War: Manuscript sources in the Special Collections Library at Duke University
United States Sanitary Commission
Women in the Military During the Civil War
Women Soldiers of the Civil War
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Commercial
Education
Educator Resources (also do a search on the character string "educator resource" since they are also scattered throughout this page
Family/ Home/ Marriage/ Every Day Life
The American Woman of the Early Nineteenth Century (connerprairie)
Courtship and Marriage
Domesticity and the Cult of True Womanhood
Domesticity and the Woman Writer
Elizabeth's life along the Erie Canal (Syracuse On-Line)
Enforcing White Womanhood
Living Conditions for Immigrants (Lower East Side of NY)
Marriage, Women, and the Law: A Digital Collection Demonstration Site (check this out!)
Origins of Violence Against Women
Pride and Prejudice -- Notes on Education, Marriage, Status of Women, etc. (family life)
Primary Sources - 19th Century
Beard, Ida May Crumpler (1862-) My Own Life: or, A Deserted Wife (HTML and TEI at UNC)
Farmer, Fannie Merritt (1857-1915) Boston Cooking School Cook Book (Boston: Little, Brown, 1918) (HTML at Bartleby)
Fuller, Margaret (1810-1850) Woman in the Nineteenth Century(HTML at eku.edu)
Marion Harland (1830 - 1922), Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery
Holley, Marietta (illustrated HTML at Mindspring) (1887)
Samantha at Saratoga: or, "Racin' After Fashion" (humor)
Sophia Orne Johnson, A Manual of Etiquette with Hints on Politeness and Good Breeding
Harriet Martineau: excerpts of various works including Society in America (1837)
Hannah More, "Sensibility"
Harvey Newcomb, How to be a lady: a book for girls, containing useful hints on the formation of character. ... (1850)
Florence Nightingale: excerpt from Rural Hygiene, c. 1850
John Beverley Robinson, The Abolition of Marriage (1889)
Mary Elizabeth Wilson Sherwood (1826 - 1903), Manners and Social Usages (1887 edition)
Emily Thornwell (fl.1857), The Lady's Guide to Perfect Gentility, in Manners, Dress, and Conversation
Letters from a Victorian Governess/Companion to Royal families written during the period 1883-1894 from India/Prussia/Greece
Sex, Mayhem and Morality in 19th Century Ontario County
"She is More to be Pitied than Censured": Women, Sexuality and Murder in 19th Century America
"White Slavery" As Metaphor: Anatomy of a Moral Panic
Women, Feminism, and Sex in Progressive America (jump down a couple of screens, past all the sales stuff for the history information)
Women and Social Movements in the US, 1830 - 1930
Women's Daily Life in the 19th Century
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Fashion/ Dress
General History & Miscellaneous
General Women's History Links (all eras including the 19th century)
History (19th Century, Women's)
International
- Africa
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"So Distant and Wild a Scene": language, domesticity and difference in Hannah Kilham's writing from West Africa, 1822-1832
Discussions of Female Circumcision
- Argentina
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Maria Eugenia Echenique, The Emancipation of Women, 1876
- Australia
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Australian Feminisms
Chronology of women's suffrage in South Australia
Family Law in the 19th Century
Left Out Last Time: An Account of Women's Involvement in Constitutional Debate in the 1890s
Mary Lee (1821-1909) "Letter to Women" (1890)
Mary Anne Sadlier Archive (includes archive + website)
Millicent Preston-Stanley (1883-1955) Papers at National Library of Australia
Mona Caird (1854-1932)
Primary Sources
Parker, Katherine Langloh (ca.1855-1940) Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Picaninnies (second edition, 1897) (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
Parker, Katherine Langloh (ca.1855-1940) The Euahlayi tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia (London: Archibald Constable and Company, Ltd., 1905) (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
Woman's Suffragein South Australia
Women's Suffrage in South Australia (bibliography)
Women's Suffrage Centenary Celebrations (South Australia)
- Belgium
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Marie Popelin (1846-1913) and the International Feminist Conference (Brussels 1897). Doctor of Law and one of the founders of the Belgian League of Women's Rights
- Britain / UK/ England
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Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon (1827 - 1891)
Child Labor
Contagious Diseases Act
* The Emancipation of Women 1750-1920 (aka Spartacus. Great!!)
European History (Eng. Married Women's Property Rights Laws, bios, book review)
Field-faring Women: the resistance of women who worked in the fields of nineteenth-century England
The Gynecologist in Victorian England
The Industrial Revolution by Joseph A. Montagna
Josephine Butler (lots of links to other documents)
Introduction to a Victorian Woman's World
"Pair of ... Infernal Queens"? A Reassessment of the Dominant Representations of Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, First Wave Feminists in Edwardian Britain
The Plight of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Revolution in England and Wales
Primary Sources
Barbauld, Anna Letitia Aikin, Epistle To William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
Edwin Chadwick, Report on Sanitary Conditions (1842)
Frances Power Cobbe (1822 - 1904), Criminals, Idiots, Women, and Minors: Is the Classification Sound? A Discussion on the Laws Concerning the Property of Married Women (1869)
Sarah Ellis, The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits
Elizabeth Sarah Sheridan [aka Caroline Norton; Pearce Stevenson] (1808 - 1877), English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century Caroline
or here (several other works by Sheridan are listed on the Feminist Foremothers page)
Taylor, Helen (1831-1907) Claim of Englishwomen to the Suffrage Constitutionally Considered (HTML at indiana.edu)
Women Miners in the English Coal Pits
Prison Experiences of the Suffragettes in Edwardian Britain
Queen Charlotte, 1744-1818: A Bilingual Exhibit
Queen Victoria
Victorian England
Women, Economic Instability, and Poverty in London During the Nineteenth Century
Women and the Law in Victorian England (Things were pretty much the same in the US as described at this site.)
- Canada
19th Century Sources
Calvert, Reuben, and Mrs. Henry Wheeler, Story of Abigail Becker, the Heroine of Long Point, As Told By Her Step-daughter, Mrs. Henry Wheeler (Toronto : W. Briggs, 1899, page images at canadiana.org)
Carr-Harris, Bertha, Lights and Shades of Mission Work, Or, Leaves From a Worker's Note Book: Being Reminiscences of Seven Years Service At the Capital, 1885-1892 (Ottawa: Free Press, 1892, page images at canadiana.org)
Carus-Wilson, Mrs. Ashley, Medical Education of Women: A Lecture (Montreal: J. Lovell, 1895, page images at canadiana.org)
Caswell, Harriet S., Walter Harland, Or, Memories of the Past (Montreal, 1874, page images at canadiana.org)
Chaureth, Sophie Berthelette Sketches of the Life, Troubles, and Grievances of a French Canadian Lady: Caused Especially By Civil and Religionist Political Persecution (Toronto, 1857, page images at canadiana.org)
Chisholm, Addie, Why and How: A Hand-book for the Use of the W.C.T. Unions in Canada (page images at canadiana.org)
Cooke, Maud C. (fl.1896) Social Etiquette, or, Manners and Customs of Polite Society (London, Ont.: McDermid & Logan, 1896, page images at canadiana.org)
Cowie, Mrs. J. S., Band of Hope Ritual, With Responsive Readings and Temperance Hymns (Moncton, N.B. : Office of the Telephone, 1884, page images at canadiana.org)
Craig, Maria G. Information Relating to Municipal Legislation of the Liquor Traffic, Also of Municipal Franchise for Women (ca.1899, page images at canadiana.org)
Cramp, Mary, Retrospects: A History of the Formation and Progress of the Women's Missionary Aid Societies of the Maritime Provinces (1892, page images at canadiana.org)
Davis, Lelia Ada Woman's Dress, a Question of the Day (1894, page images at canadiana.org)
Emigrant lady (fl.1878), Letters From Muskoka (London: R. Bentley, 1878, page images at canadiana.org)
Fuhrer, Charlotte (fl.1881) Mysteries of Montreal: Being Recollections of a Female Physician (1881, page images at canadiana.org)
Watkins, Kathleen Blake, To London for the Jubilee (Toronto : G. Morang, 1897, page images at canadiana.org)
Agriculture a family occupation in 19th-century Ontario, Canada
Herstory: The History (Canada, available in French)
A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba (London : W.H. Allen, 1884) by Mary Hall (page images at canadiana.org)
Women In History
- China
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One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise
Women in Late Imperial China
- Europe
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The Development of Women's Movements
, 1789-1914 (c) James F. McMillan (fantastic!)
The Lid Comes Off: International Radical Feminism and the Revolutions of 1848 Bonnie S. Anderson (repair existing link)
Portia Ante Portas: Women and the Legal Profession in Europe, ca. 1870-1925
- France
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Anais née Menard Segalas (1819-95)
Men in Early 19th-Century French Women's Writing
Condorcet contradicts three well known arguments against the equality of women: natural, historical and the social.
Condorcet On the Admission of Women to the Rights of Citizenship
(1790)
Primary Sources
Jenny P. d' Hericourt [aka Jeanne-Marie-Fabienne Poinsard; Felix Lamb] (1809 - 1875) A Woman's Philosophy of Woman: or Woman Affranchised
Women in the French Revolution: The Failure of the Parisian Women's Movement in Relation to the Theories of Feminism of Rousseau and Condorcet
- Germany
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Die Siegemundin (Justine Dittrich
) (1670 - 1705) Scientist and Writer
Dorothea Christiane Erxleben
(1715 - 1762) First Female German Doctor
Frauen-Zeitung [Women's Newspaper] (1848 Revolution Website)
Helene Lange
(1848 - 1930), school reformer in Germany (opened education to women / girls)
Helene
Lange became a leader of German's women's movements about 1902
History of the German Women's Movement
Luise Aston (1814 - 1871) German Feminist
Mathilde Anneke
Mathilde Franziska Anneke
Women in German History
(bilingual English and German)
Women in
Politics
Women's Experiences of Injustice: A Dimension of Feminist Legal Criticism
- India
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An Account of Sati from Vikrama's Adventures
The Practice of Sati
Primary Sources
William Bentinck: On Ritual Murder in India (1829)
Raja Rammohan Roy: A Second Conference Between an
Advocate for, and An Opponent of the Practice of Burning Widows Alive (1820)
- Iran
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Brief History of Women's Movements in Iran 1850 - 2000
- Ireland
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Irish Women's History
- Japan
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Kishida Toshiko (1863-1901)
- Mexico
- New Zealand
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Elizabeth Yates: The First Lady Mayor in the British Empire
Petition for Woman's Suffrage (1893) in the National Archives of New Zealand
- Persia
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"The Effects of Tahirih's Unveiling: A comparison of events in Persia and Women's Suffrage world wide" (includes links to pages with poetry by and short bio of Tahirih)
"Ruptured Spaces and Effective Histories: The Unveiling of the Babi Poetess Qurrat al-`Ayn Tahirih in the Gardens of Badasht," by Negar Mottahedeh
Primary Sources
Thomas Laurie, Woman and her Saviour in Persia (1863)
Tahirih (Ta-he-ray) mid-19th century Persian feminist activist, poet, and scholar
- Spain
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Concepción Arenal (1820-1893)
- Sweden
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Project Runeberg (Nordic women, in Swedish)
- Turkey
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Women's Rights in Turkey
- World
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Women and Law in Europe (available in French and Spanish)
Enfranchising Women: The Politics of Women's Suffrage in Europe 1789-1945 (This site contains *hundreds* of top-quality primary and secondary sources. Fantastic!)
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Law
Library of Congress (LoC)
Literature - Individuals (see also Primary Sources and Biographical Dictionary)
Jane Austen (includes lots of links to e-texts)
The Brontes
TheBrontes
Bronte Parsonage Museum
Emily Bronte: The Bronte Archives
Carlyle, Jane Welsh (ed.), Thomas Carlyle and James Anthony Froude, Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
Kate Chopin
Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)
George Eliot
Chronical List of Publications of George Eliot's Novels, short Stories, and Poems (includes links to e-texts of 9 novels)
George Eliot (1819-1880) Website
Elizabeth Fries Ellet (1818 - 1877)
Elizabeth Gaskell Website (1810-65) or
North and South, 1855
Mary Barton, A Tale of Manchester Life, 1848
Mary Hallock Foote (1847-1938)Henrik Ibsen A Doll's House (1879)
Lucy Larcom
An idyl of work 1875 Page images or Text
Poems (1869)
Hon. Emily Lawless, Maria Edgeworth (1905)
Mary Murdoch Mason, Mae Madden [a novel] (1876
)
Caroline May, American Female Poets (Lindsay and Blakiston: Philadelphia, Penn. 1853)
Mary Shelly and her parents and husband
The Mortal Immortal
Frankenstein, (1818
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Literature - Collections (see also Primary Sources and Feminist Foremothers)
Math and Science Medicine
Music
Native Americans
19th Century Sources
Alger, Abby Langdon (1850-) In Indian Tents: Stories Told By Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Mimac Indians to Abby L. Alger (Boston: Roberts, 1897, page images at canadiana.org)
Baker, Charlotte Alice (1833-1909) True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the Old French and Indian Wars (1897, page images at canadiana.org)
Bonnin, Gertrude Simmons [aka Zitkala-Sa] (1876-1938) American Indian Stories (Washington: Hayworth Publishing House, 1921) (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
Bonnin, Gertrude Simmons [aka Zitkala-Sa] (1876-1938) Old Indian Legends (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
Bunzel, Ruth Leah Zuni Ceremonialism (as originally published by the Smithsonian, HTML at sacred-texts.com)
Converse, Harriet Arnot Maxwell Ho-de'-no-sau-nee: the Confederacy of the Iroquois [the Six Nations]: A Poem (New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1884, page images at canadiana.org)
Fletcher, Alice Cunningham (1845-1923) Indian Story and Song From North America (London, Boston: D. Nutt; Small, Maynard, 1900, page images at canadiana.org)
Dating the Iroquois Confederacy by Bruce E. Johansen
from Forgotten Founders, Chapter 3: "Our Indians Have Outdone the Romans" By Bruce E. Johansen
The Iroquois and the Early Radical Feminists
Nancy Ward
PBS Omission -- What Suffragettes Owed The Iroquois
Sisters in the Spirit: The Iroquois Influence on the Early Women's Rights Movement (Sally Roesch Wagner at Pacifica Radio)
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Primary Sources (Individuals) (see also Biography, Biographical Dictionaries, and Literature, and Feminist Foremothers Page)
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)
Amelia Edwards, "Queen Hatasu, and Her Expedition to the Land of Punt", chapter 8 of Pharaohs Fellahs and Explorers, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1891
Friederich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
Caroline Norton, (1808-1877)
Pillsbury, Parker The Mortality of Nations: an address delivered before the American equal rights association, in New York, Thursday evening, May 9, 1867.
Mark Twain, Eulogy of the Fair Sex (1868)
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Primary sources (Collections)
The Development of Women's Movements, 1789-1914 (fantastic site!)
Extracts about women from Tocqueville's Democracy in America and other early 19th century works about America
Feminism and Women's Politics, 1870-1939
First-Person Narratives of the American South, Beginnings to 1920 (includes hundreds of first person accounts by men and women)
Gender and Sexuality 1500-1820
Historical Text Archive (and lots more): Women in History
Microfilche and microfilm collections
Women's Journals of the Nineteenth Century
Women's Suffrage Collection
Mid-Century Woman's Rights Movement (from History of Woman Suffrage)
The Mining Company
Search on women, history - or
A to Z List (Scroll down to alphabet, choose W, then Scroll down to Women's ...)
E-Texts and Women's History
MOA U. of Michigan's Making of America
The Ladies' Repository
The Online Archive of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writings
Scrapbook of Interesting Stuff
Text Resources
United States Centennial Celebration and the Declaration of Rights, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, July 4, 1876
Women in Social Movements in the US, 1830 - 1930
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Religion
(1873)
Smith, Mary Ettie V. (1829-) Mormonism: Its Rise, Progress, and Present Condition (page images at MOA)
Waite, Mrs. Catharine Van Valkenburg (1829-) The Mormon prophet and his harem; or, An authentic history of Brigham Young, his numerous wives and children.
The Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet in Tucson
Why Women Need Freedom From Religion by The Internet Infidels
Women of Mormonism (Book) 1881
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Reproduction
Secondary Sources (e-texts about 19th century women, alphabetical by subject)
May Sinclair, Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922)
Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention of 1848
Seneca Falls Commemorations
States (alphabetical by state)
Alabama Women's Hall of Fame
Women in Alaska History by Elizabeth Beckett and Sarah Teel
Women in Alsaka's History: Gold Rush
Women of the Klondike (Alaska Gold Rush)
Arizona Business and Professional Women's History page (it's really commercial, but it's the best I find)
Sarah Armstrong Wallis (1825-1905), 1870 president of California's first statewide suffrage organization
Women (California)
Women in the (California) Gold Rush
Women and Power in Alta California: 1790-1835
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame
Crisis In The Family: Connecticut And The Nation
Women's Political Rights In Connecticut 1830-1980
Hawaii's Last Queen
Hawai'i Women's Heritage Project
Lili'uokalani, Hawaii's Queen, 1898, Hawaii's Story
Idaho (U. of) Manuscript Resources (men's and women's combined)
Ahead of Their Time: A Brief History of Woman Suffrage in Illinois By Mark W. Sorensen (For a free copy of their illustrated 50-page booklet about Women's Suffrage in Illinois, e-mail your street address to msorens@ccgate.sos.state.il.us)
Illinois State Library: Women of Illinois (includes links to on-line books)
Woman Suffrage in Illinois
Indiana History--Women
Notable Women with Indiana Connections
Notable Kansas Women: Kansas State Historical Society
Kentucky Women's History
Hard Work to Make Ends Meet: Voices of Maine's Working Women
Worcester Women's History Project (Mass)
Worcester Women's Rights Convention: Historical Resources
Historical MichiganWomen Links
Gertrude Braat Vandergon (1860 - 1941), Our Pioneer Days in Minnesota
How The Suffragist Changed Michigan by Louise Sause (about 1/4 of the way from the top)
Seacoast, New Hampshire
Notable Facts About New Jersey Women
Woman's Rights Petition to the New York Legislature, 1854
New York Legislature, Select Committee Report
Upstate New York and the Women's Rights Movement
Women of Courage Profiles by women from St. Lawrence County, NY branch of AAUW
Women in Tennessee History - Bibliography
The Handbook of Texas: Woman Suffrage
Utah Women Were first in the Nation to Play Many Roles
John P. Hoyt and Women's Suffrage (Washington Territory then Washington State)
Washington
State: Suffrage
