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This is an argument for more women preachers. Willard served as secretary of the American Methodist Ladies Centenary Association, and in 1887 was one of the first women elected as a delegate to the Methodist General Conference.

Frances Willard transformed the Women’s Christian Temperance Union into a strong advocate of woman suffrage and brought the group into the political arena, actively campaigning for candidates across the nation. This work includes the biographies of…

In her narrative, Truth recounts her name changes, identity, and declares herself, by her will, not a willing victim, but an active opponent. She recounts early incidents showing the absolute inhumanity of slavery as practiced in the North as well as…

Although her great fame rests on writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s religious poetry was extremely popular.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, suffragist, journalist and lecturer, worked all of her life for the advancement of women's rights, becoming increasingly more radical in the last third of her life. Perhaps most radical was the publication of this book, The…

First edition inscribed: "The few have no right to the luxuries of life, while the many are denied its necessities."

This first edition of Life and Letters, edited by their granddaughter Anna Davis Hallowell, is the first complete biography of Lucretia Mott, who was a pioneer in the reform movements of the 19th-century including abolition, suffrage, and temperance.…

Original cabinet photograph of noted suffrage and abolitionist leader, Lucretia Mott. On the back is written, "Truth for authority, not authority for truth." Mott was a Quaker minister, pioneer in the women's rights movement, abolitionist, and…

This report prints her address in full, as well as prints remarks by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Owen, Oliver Johnson, Francis Abbot, et al.