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