Proceedings of the Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women, held in ...
This pamphlet helps to emphasize the relationship between abolitionism and women's rights. Also available in digital form.
The first convention ever called to discuss the civil and political ri...
Caption title. "This call was published in the Seneca County courier, July 14, 1848, without any signatures. The movers of this convention, who drafted the call, the declaration and resolutions were Elizabeth C... More
Discourse on woman
This lecture by Mott, delivered 17 December 1849, was in response to one by an unidentified lecturer criticizing the demand for equal rights for women. She makes a very gentle appeal here for women's enfranchis... More
An address on woman's rights : delivered before the people's Sunday me...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site, and on microfilm (Microfilm O1291 reel 221, no.10E). No. 3 in a vol. with binder's title: Miscellaneous speeches.
Proceedings at the presentation to the Hon. Robert Dale Owen of a silv...
In 1851, Indiana adopted a state constitution that included a measure protecting the property rights of married women. Robert Dale Owen was the chief architect of this provision and the women of Indiana honored... More
The proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Worcester, O...
This pamphlet includes addresses by Paulina Wright Davis, Abby Price, and Harriet K. Hunt. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly owned by Lucy Stone. Includes tipp... More
The proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Akron, Ohio,...
This state conference included reports on education, labor, and common law, as well as letters from Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Amelia Bloomer. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.... More
Review of Horace Mann's two lectures : delivered in New-York, February...
This is a scathing attack on two lectures delivered by educator Horace Mann, entitled "Hints to a young woman." Among her other accomplishments, Ernestine Rose worked for passage of the Married Women's Property... More
Enfranchisement of women : reprinted from the Westminster and foreign ...
This was reprinted from "Westminster and Foreign Quarterly Review," July 1851, and was intended for a European audience. Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC cop... More
The proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at Worcester, O...
This pamphlet includes addresses by Ernestine Rose, Wendell Phillips, and Abby Price, as well as correspondence from Harriet Martineau of England and from Jeanne Deroin Pauline Roland of France. Also available ... More
The proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention, held at West Chester...
This meeting was presided over by Lucretia Mott, who also addressed the assembly. Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Convention ... no. 97, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in Convention, J...
Report of the Committee recommending suffrage for women in Massachusetts. Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly owned by Lucy Stone. With: The Whole... More
Woman's right to preach the gospel : a sermon, preached at the ordinat...
This sermon was preached at the ordination of Antoinette L. Brown, on 15 September 1853. Brown was one of the first women to be ordained in the Congregational church. Lettered on cover: S.B. Anthony. No. 13 in ... More
The rights and condition of women : a sermon, preached in Syracuse, No...
Reprint of a sermon delivered by May in Syracuse, New York in November, 1845. It follows the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840 but precedes the first women's rights convention in America by more t... More
A sermon of the public function of woman : preached at the Music Hall,...
This sermon was one of a long series of sermons delivered by Parker on the "spiritual development of the human race." In one section containing four sermons devoted to women, Parker argues that women were preve... More
Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention held at the Broadway Tabe...
This pamphlet contains addresses by William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Lucy Stone, and C.C. Burleigh. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly owned by Lucy Sto... More
The Whole World's Temperance Convention, held at Metropolitan Hall in ...
This conference included the expulsion of female delegates, among them Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Abby Foster. "Compiled from the reports of the Tribune, Times, and Herald; principally from the Tribune."... More
Proceedings of the National Women's Rights Convention held at Clevelan...
This pamphlet addresses a variety of different problems facing women in the nineteenth century, including equal access to education and employment, reform of laws governing marriage and divorce, and concerns ab... More
Address to the Legislature of New-York : adopted by the State Woman's ...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Report of the Woman's Rights Meeting, at Mercantile Hall, May 27, 1859...
This is a report of a meeting held in Boston, Massachusetts, concerning women's rights in New England. Among the speakers were Wendell Phillips, Caroline Dall, Harriot Hunt, James Freeman Clarke, and John T. Sa... More
Proceedings of the Ninth National Woman's Rights Convention held in Ne...
This pamphlet contains a speech by Wendell Phillips advocating for women's enfranchisement. "Published for the Convention." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly o... More
Proceedings of the first anniversary of the American Equal Rights Asso...
This report contains addresses by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Samuel J. May, C.C. Burleigh, Frances D. Gage, Lucretia Mott, Parker Pillsbury, Ernestine Rose, Henry Ward Beecher, Sojourner Truth, and Charles Lenox R... More
The mortality of nations : an address delivered before the American Eq...
No. 37 in a collection of pamphlets lettered: Miscellaneous speeches, etc. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Woman's rights
In this pamphlet, clergyman John Todd argues that women are not equal to men because they cannot invent or reason extensively. A good examination of the separate spheres ideology. Also available in digital form... More
Woman suffrage in New Jersey - woman suffrage, Library of Congress
Also available in digital form on the Library of, Congress Web site.
That terrible question, or, A few thoughts on love and marriage
This pamphlet by an abolitionist argues that women are enslaved by marriage. Includes author's The social evil (p. 1-12 at end). Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy forme... More
The true woman : a series of discourses : to which is added Woman vs. ...
Justin D. Fulton was pastor of the Union Temple Baptist Church in Boston, Massachusetts. His pamphlet employs traditional arguments from scripture as evidence for why women should not be enfranchised. Also avai... More
Woman as God made her : the true woman
Justin D. Fulton was pastor of the Union Temple Baptist Church in Boston, Massachusetts. His pamphlet employs traditional arguments from scripture as evidence for why women should not be enfranchised. "To which... More
Powers of Congress to prohibit inequality, caste and oligarchy of the ...
No. 32 in a collection of pamphlets lettered: Miscellaneous pamphlets, etc. Signed and annotated by Susan B. Anthony. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Senate, no. 343, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in Senate, May 24, 186...
This pamphlet contains the action concerning a proposal submitted in 1869 to amend the Massachusetts state constitution to enfranchise women. Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Cong... More
The Ohio convention reporter
This publication proposes to cover all of the major conventions taking place in Ohio. In the March, 1870, issue, it published the proceedings of the Ohio Woman Suffrage Convention. Lucy Stone was a keynote spea... More
Social evils, their causes and cure : being a brief discussion of the ...
In this pamphlet, the author addresses a number of issues contributing to problems in contemporary society, among them poor diet, prostitution, marriage and divorce, the plight of orphans, and women in prisons.... More
A history of the national woman's rights movement, for twenty years : ...
This pamphlet includes speeches by Matilda Joselyn Gage and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and an appendix including information on actions taken since the convention, including the memorial of Victoria Woodhull to Co... More
"And the truth shall make you free" : a speech on the principles of so...
This speech defends Woodhull's advocacy of free love or social freedom, which served to create divisions within the women's rights movement and led eventually to her ostracism by some women's rights association... More
An appeal to the women of the United States
The appeal argues that women were already enfranchised by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly owned by Lucy Stone. Gift;... More
Uncivil liberty : an essay to show the injustice and impolicy of rulin...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly owned by Lucy Stone. Gift; National American Woman Suffrage Association; Nov. 1, 1938.
The Constitution, a title-deed to woman's franchise : a letter to Char...
This letter to Charles Sumner requests that he use his influence to urge the passage of legislation which would force New York to permit women to vote as guaranteed them by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendmen... More
A lecture on constitutional equality : delivered at Lincoln Hall, Wash...
This pamphlet is a continuation of Woodhull's argument on the constitutional enfranchisement of women. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Suffrage conferred by the Fourteenth Amendment : woman's suffrage in t...
Sara J. Spencer and Sarah E. Webster each brought cases before the court in the District of Columbia arguing that they were enfranchised by the Fourteenth Amendment. This pamphlet contains the arguments of thei... More
Constitutional equality, a right of woman ; or, A consideration of the...
Written by one of the more radical women's rights activists of the nineteenth century and covers a wide range of topics concerning the role of women in American society. It also includes a chapter on the rights... More
Woman suffrage : the argument of Carrie S. Burnham before Chief Justic...
Carrie S. Burnham tried to vote in the state of Pennsylvania in 1871. This pamphlet concerns her arguments before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania about why she was entitled to vote. In addition to Burnham's a... More
Legislative wrongs to labor and how to right them : address delivered ...
The message of this pamphlet is that all women in Pennsylvania must be enfranchised under the new state constitution to keep business interests--in this specific case the railroads and the coal mines--from runn... More
Argument before the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representative...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony on the ...
LC copy has annotations, a newspaper clipping, and a letter and two congressional documents tipped after the text. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Taxation of women in Massachusetts
This pamphlet examines the legal and political status of women in Massachusetts from 1780 to 1871. It includes a brief appendix tabulating the amount women have paid in taxes while being denied the right to vot... More
Mr. Wadleigh, from the Committee on Privileges and Elections, submitte...
Caption title. At head of title: "In the Senate of the United States, June 14, 1878 ..." LC copy is [no. 3] in a vol. with binder's title: Senator Sumner's 1869 and reports and hearings to 1902. Binding: inscri... More
Constitution of the American Woman Suffrage Association and the histor...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly owned by Lucy Stone. Gift; National American Woman Suffrage Association; Nov. 1, 1938.
Massachusetts in the woman suffrage movement : a general, political, l...
Harriet Hanson was a Lowell mill operative in the 1830s and 1840s when she wrote "Loom and Spindle." In 1848, she married William Stevens Robinson, editor of the "Lowell courier." After the Civil War both Harri... More
Congressional action in the first session of the 48th Congress, 1883, ...
Caption title. LC copy is [no. 5] in a vol. with binder's title: Senator Sumner's 1869 and reports and hearings to 1902. Binding: inscribed by Susan B. Anthony. From the library of Anna H. Shaw. NAWSA bookplate... More
Universal suffrage : speech of Hon. Thomas W. Palmer of Michigan in th...
Caption title. LC copy is [no. 6] in a vol. with binder's title: Senator Sumner's 1869 and reports and hearings to 1902. Binding: inscribed by Susan B. Anthony. From the library of Anna H. Shaw. NAWSA bookplate... More
Woman suffrage : views of the minority
Caption title. Signed: E.B. Taylor, W.P. Hepburn, L.B. Caswell, with concurrence: A.A. Ranney.--p. 3. LC copy is [no. 7] in a vol. with binder's title: Senator Sumner's 1869 and reports and hearings to 1902. Bi... More
Debate on woman suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d sessio...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The women's vote in Kansas
This is a tabulation of votes cast by women in Kansas following the passage of municipal suffrage legislation in April 1887. It suggests that women exercised their franchise in a responsible and intelligent man... More
Mr. Blair, from the Committee on Woman Suffrage, submitted the followi...
Caption title. At head of title: "In the Senate of the United States, August 12, 1890..." Signed at end: Henry W. Blair, for the majority of the committee. LC copy is [no. 9] in a vol. with binder's title: Sena... More
Woman suffrage : Mr. Caswell, from the Committee on the Judiciary, sub...
Caption title. "May 29th, 1890, referred to the House Calendar and ordered to be printed." LC copy is [no. 10] in a vol. with binder's title: Senator Sumner's 1869 and reports and hearings to 1902. Binding: ins... More
Transactions of the National Council of Women of the United States : a...
The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony at the suggestion of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was an organization composed of national organizations and affiliated a... More
Address of Frances E. Willard, president of the Woman's National Counc...
The National Council of Women of the United States was created in 1888 at the recommendation of Elizabeth Cady Stanton to further the goal of women's rights. It includes interesting information on the ideologic... More
Hearing of the Woman Suffrage Association before the Committee on the ...
This pamphlet contains speeches by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, Isabella Beecher Hooker, and Susan B. Anthhony. Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Address before the Second Biennial Convention of the World's Woman's C...
Reprint of a speech delivered at the Art Institute building at the World Columbian Exposition in 1893. Willard was president of both of these organizations. The speech touches on a number of issues concerning w... More
Mr. Warren, from the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage, submitted the...
Caption title. "Calendar no. 1174." LC copy is [no. 11] in a vol. with binder's title: Senator Sumner's 1869 and reports and hearings to 1902. Binding: inscribed by Susan B. Anthony. From the library of Anna H.... More
Legal status of women in Iowa
Jennie Wilson was a member of the bar in Polk County, Iowa. In this book, she summarizes the legal status of women in such areas as marriage, divorce, property rights, apprenticeships of children, estates and w... More
Hearing before the Committee on Woman Suffrage, February 21, 1894
Caption title. At head of title: "In the Senate of the United States." This pamphlet contains brief remarks by Ida Hulton, Alice Stone Blackwell, and Anna Shaw. Also available in digital form on the Library of ... More
Report of hearing before the Committee on Woman Suffrage, January 28, ...
LC copy is [no. 14] in a vol. with binder's title: Senator Sumner's 1869 and reports and hearings to 1902. Binding: inscribed by Susan B. Anthony. From the library of Anna H. Shaw. NAWSA bookplate. Also availab... More
Hearing of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Committee...
This pamphlet contains speeches by Susan B. Anthony, Charlotte Perkins Stetson [Gilman], Henry Blackwell, and others. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Scrapbooks of Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller
The scrapbooks were compiled by suffragists Elizabeth Smith Miller and her daughter, Anne Fitzhugh Miller, of Geneva, N.Y., between 1897 and 1911. They include newspaper clippings, pamphlets, programs, letters... More
The Ballot and the bullet, by Alice Stone Blackwell
This is a collection of essays written to refute the argument that women should not be enfranchised because they are incapable of defending their right to vote by military service. Also available in digital for... More
The legal status of women by Jessie Jane Cassidy
In a series of seven chapters, Saunders undertakes an examination of the legal status of women in the United States concerning the property rights of married women -- including intestate estates and the right t... More
Report of hearing before the Committee on Woman Suffrage. February 15,...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The history of equal suffrage in Colorado, 1868-1898
Colorado women were enfranchised in 1898. This book details the history of that struggle. It includes a discussion of the growth of Colorado women's clubs as an important factor in the campaign. It also provide... More
Bible and church degrade woman
In 1895, Elizabeth Cady Stanton published the first edition of "The Woman's Bible," an attempt to amplify, explain, and redefine scriptural references pertaining to women in the basis that these were often used... More
Hearing on House Joint Resolution 68 : providing as follows, "Section ...
At head of title: "House of Representatives, before the Committee on the Judiciary, February 15, 1898." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
National Council of Women of the United States, report of its Tenth An...
The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony at the suggestion of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was an organization composed of national organizations and affiliated a... More
Congressional reports in favor of an amendment to the national constit...
Caption title. LC copy is [no. 22] in a vol. with binder's title: Senator Sumner's 1869 and reports and hearings to 1902. Binding: inscribed by Susan B. Anthony. From the library of Anna H. Shaw. NAWSA bookplat... More
Woman suffrage : hearing before the Committee on Judiciary of the Hous...
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Hearing before the United States Senate Committee on Woman Suffrage, h...
Caption title. John W. Daniel, chairman. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The constitutional rights of the women of the United States : an addre...
This speech focuses on the argument that nothing in the Constitution specifically denies women the right to vote and advocates that women exercise that right whenever possible. A portion of the talk is devoted ... More
Woman suffrage : hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary of the ...
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Woman suffrage : hearing before the Select Committee on Woman Suffrage...
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Women in the New York municipal campaign of 1901
Reprint of a speech delivered by Villard at the National Suffrage Convention in Washington, D.C., 14 February 1902. It provides an excellent overview of the New York State campaign in its later stages. Cover ti... More
Consecrated womanhood; a sermon preached in the First Congregational c...
"Five hundred copies of this edition have been printed from type in the month of August, 1903, by the Gilliss press." Also available in digital form.
The new womanhood
Winnifred Harper Cooley was the daughter of Ida Husted Harper, one of the authors of the multi-volume "History of Woman Suffrage." This book, written during the period of time when Anna Howard Shaw was presiden... More
Program of the 5th Triennial Meeting of the National Council of Women ...
The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony at the suggestion of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was an organization composed of national organizations and affiliated a... More
Harris and Ewing, Washington, D.C.
Portraits and news photographs by Washington, D.C.-based firm, showing people, events, architecture in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. No collective t.p.; titles transcribed from individual cover titles or cap... More
Equal suffrage : the results of an investigation in Colorado made for ...
An examination of the effects of woman suffrage on "political and social life," using Colorado as a case study. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Shall women have the right to vote?
Wendell Phillips was an abolitionist and an early advocate of woman suffrage. This pamphlet is a 1910 reprint of an early speech on this topic with a brief foreword by "S.Y.S." Also available in digital form on... More
Selected articles on woman suffrage
This handbook contains a good debating outline and a bibliography to help students locate more materials on suffrage. Bibliography: p. [xvii]-xxxvii. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Woman and the republic : a survey of the woman-suffrage movement in th...
This book, originally published in 1897, argues against woman suffrage as being antithetical to both democracy and progress. The author maintains that women can progress only in relation to the general progress... More
Woman's place in government; from the scientific and Biblical viewpoin...
p. 184, advertising matter. Also available in digital form.
American women in civic work - sufragist biography book by Helen Chris...
Each woman included in this book attained some level of prominence in politics, education, or social reform. "Portions of the sketches which appear in this book have been published serially, principally in the ... More
Are women people? : a book of rhymes for suffrage times
This is a collection of poetry concerning suffrage and women's rights, much of which was first published in the "New York Times." Reprinted in part from the New York tribune. Also available in digital form on t... More
How it feels to be the husband of a suffragette
A humorous and highly entertaining account of suffrage written by a man married to a suffragist who is also a supporter of the woman suffrage movement. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Solitude of self
Stanton's classic argument for why women need to be enfranchised by a Sixteenth Amendment. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. "Reprinted from the Congressional record and presen... More
The trade union woman
The book examines the history of women's labor organizations and the relationship of working-class women to the campaign for woman suffrage. Bibliography: p. 297-303. Also available in digital form on the Libra... More
Socialism, feminism, and suffragism : the terrible triplets, connected...
This book equates feminism and woman suffrage with both socialism and atheism. According to the author, feminism and the enfranchisement of women will destroy the family. The book also suggests that pregnant wo... More
Biennial of the proceedings of the National Council of Women, Washingt...
The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony at the suggestion of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was an organization composed of national organizations and affiliated a... More
The torch bearer : a look forward and back at the Woman's journal, the...
This pamphlet contains a history of the "Woman's journal" which was of the official publication of AWSA. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Woman's suffrage by Constitutional amendment
This is a collection of lectures delivered by Tucker in the William Storrs Lecture Series, Yale University Law School, 1916, and originally titled "Local Self-Government." One lecture addresses the ways in whic... More
"The Blue book" : woman suffrage, history, arguments and results
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
For rent -- one pedestal
This is a series of letters between two fictional characters, Delight Dennison (an out-of-work teacher) and her friend, Barbara Martin. They are set in the community of Canton and document Dennison's transforma... More
Biennial report of the National Council of Women of the United States ...
The National Council of Women of the United States was founded in 1888 by Susan B. Anthony at the suggestion of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was an organization composed of national organizations and affiliated a... More