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First edition inscribed by Mary McLeod Bethune. This work features the biographies of seven African-American women who were pioneers in education, financial and social institutions.

Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman was a feminist, author and lecturer. In this work Gilman drew on history, sociology, anthropology, and psychology and used an evolutionary perspective to explore women's subordinate status in society in the past and…

In this work Catt has compiled documents related to "why an amendment to the Federal Constitution is the most appropriate method of dealing with the question" of woman suffrage. She authored four chapters, and Mary Sumner Boyd and the Hon. Henry Wade…

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…

Original diaries of Elizabeth and Lucy provide insight into their involvement with the antislavery movement.

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…

The Woman Suffrage Cook Book contains recipes by more than 164 different women. Copies of this cookbook were sold to raise funds for the suffrage movement, and put the words of its leaders in the homes of everyday housewives. A carefully curated…

Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1903. The British suffrage movement had "officially" started in 1865 in Manchester. The actions of the WSPU brought the suffrage movement into the public forum. Window smashings,…

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…