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- Collection: Helen LaKelly Hunt Collection of American Women Reformers and Writers
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects
Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin] was a British teacher and writer. Her path-breaking feminist manifesto argued for the spiritual and rational equality of women and was extremely influential in years to come, on both sides of the Atlantic. She argued that…
Acquaintances, Old and New, Among Reformers
The Reverend Olympia Brown was the first woman to be ordained by the Northern Universalist Denomination. In 1866 she helped found the American Equal Rights Association and in that same year called for a convention in November that led to the…
The Story of a Pioneer
Anna Shaw was the first woman ordained (1880) by the Methodist Protestant church, after graduating from Boston University Divinity School in 1878, the only woman in her class. She was also a leader of the women's suffrage movement in the United…
Anna Howard Shaw [Photograph] Formerly Owned by Suffrage Supporter South Carolina State Senator Robert Hemphill
Signed as Vice President of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), was a minister, lecturer and suffragist, who was recruited by Susan B. Anthony to the suffrage cause.
An Autobiography The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith The Colored Evangelist. With an Introduction by Bishop Thoburn, of India
Amanda Smith, a Methodist evangelist and missionary, was born a slave in Maryland. Smith devoted her time to preaching in African-American churches. Her friendship with suffrage and temperance leader Frances Willard led her to Chicago, where she was…
Abby Smith and Her Cows, with a report of the law case decided contrary to law
Abby (1797-1878) and Julia Smith (1792-1886) were two of five daughters born to Zephaniah Hollister Smith, a minister in a Christian sect founded in Scotland. At a Glastonbury town meeting in 1873, Abby Smith delivered a spirited protest against the…
The Legal Rights, Liabilities and Duties of Women; with an Introductory History of Their Legal condition in the Hebrew, Roman and Feudal Civil Systems. Including the Law of marriage and Divorce, the Social Relations of Husband and Wife, parent and Child, of Guardian and Ward, and of Employer and Employed
A brief survey of the history of women, their place and their legal rights in past and present societies. Intended as a legal manual for women, Mansfield summarizes laws governing divorce, civil litigation, criminal law and laws governing domestic…
A Letter from Elizabeth Webb to Anthony William Boehm, With His Answer
Elizabeth Webb was an acknowledged Quaker minister. In 1712, she became acquainted with Anthony William Boehm, to whom she wrote of her spiritual and corporeal journeys. Bohem, was so impressed that he circulated this it among the court and into the…
An Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South Carolina, To bring their Deeds to the Light of Christ, in their own Consciences. In which is Inserted, some Account of the Author's Experience in the Important Business of Religion
Sophia Wigington Hume was a Quaker minister and religious writer. In her preaching, Hume spoke of a woman's right to pursue the dictates of her conscience.
The Beautiful Life of Frances E. Willard A Memorial Volume
This first edition of Anna Gordon’s memorial biography of Frances Willard contains character Sketches and Memorial tributes by: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward, Mary Livermore, Susan B. Anthony, Booker T. Washington, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Rabbi…