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19th Century Feminist Writings
19th Century Feminist Writings

Many of the anthologies of writings of American women listed in the general resources for this issue will prove useful in providing your students with samples of what American women wrote and read as they struggled to define their place in a republican society. Here are some suggestions for pursuing the ideas presented in Dr. Scott’s essay.

Linda Kerber pioneered in the study of the intellectual and cultural roles of women in the life of the early American republic. While this collection of her essays shows an emphasis on this period, there is plenty of material for anyone interested in American women of any era.

Linda Kerber. Toward An Intellectual History of Women. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c1997.

There is a good deal of good material on Judith Murray to choose from. You may want to start with this print collection of selections from her writings:

Harris, Sharon M., ed. Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Online, you have a choice of solid, brief sketches of Murray:

http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/march99/murray3.html

http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3269

http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/judithsargentmurray.html

http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/ author_pages/eighteenth/murray_ju.html

“Perspectives in American Literature” provides a good Murray bibliography online:

http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap2/murray.html#works

Steel yourselves to ignore the ads, and you’ll enjoy using Bartlebey’s fulltext edition of Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women:

http://www.bartleby.com/144/

There’s a biographical entry for Hannah Mather Crocker The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994, p. 222-23.

I think you’ll be well served by the sources on Angelina Grimke and her sister Sarah that we provided in HISTORY NOW’s September 2005 “Abolition” issue:

http://www.historynow.org/09_2005/ask2e.html

Lucretia Mott is now the subject of a full-scale “papers project” that is collecting and publishing her correspondence and public writings. Beverly Wilson Palmer, editor of the papers of Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens, heads this project. Go to their website:

http://www.mott.pomona.edu/

Virginia Commonwealth University has a good section on Fuller in its “Transcendentalists” website. Be warned that the link from the biographical sketch to the fulltext of her Woman in the Nineteenth Century doesn’t work. Approach them separately. Go here for the sketch and a brief Fuller bibliography:

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/ authors/fuller/sillahonfuller.html

And here for the full text of her book:

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/ fuller/woman1.html

Here’s another good sketch of Fuller with useful bibliography and Web links:

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa031599.htm

You’ll find a larger list of resources for Stanton in the “Nineteenth Century Feminist Writings” essay. These sites provide texts of specific works by Stanton mentioned by Dr. Scott

The “Solitude of Self” essay is presented at PBS “Not for Ourselves Alone” site:

http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/resources/ index.html?body=solitude_self.html

The Stanton Anthony project provides this note on preparation of Stanton’s and Anthony’s monumental History of Woman Suffrage:

http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/project/dochisthws.html

And one chapter of the History is available online:

http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa010511a.htm

American Memory provides images of a draft of one chapter of Stanton’s Woman’s Bible

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ (enter search term: “Stanton Woman’s Bible”)

While this site provides the Bible’s fulltext:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/wmn/wb/index.htm

The University of Pennsylvania’s “Celebration of Women” Website: provides the text of Gilman’s Women and Economics:

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/gilman/economics/ economics.html




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