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Women's Suffragist movement began in America primarily in 1830's coming out of the abolitionist movement spearheaded by the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 and lasted until Aug. 26, 1920 when the 19th Amendment was signed into law by Secretary of St ate Bainbridge Colby. This pathfinder will focus on the women in the 19th century who started this movement. More specifically it will focus on five women who forced the women's movement into the powerful movement it became and carried it to the twentieth century. Two of the women Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are known through out history and are popular for research. But they would not be where they were with out the women like Lucy Stone, Abby Kelley Foster, and Julia Ward Howe. While there were thousands of women in this movement these five women give a broad perspective of the Women's Suffragist movement and they are good jumping off points for you to dig deeper into the world of the 19th century women. This Pathfinder will point out good starting off Reference Books, General Books in the Beately Library catalog to help you learn more about the subject. Then will give you good search terms to help you if you can't find what you are looking for. Also it will cover the five women discussed in the paragraph above with links to quick biographies to give you general knowledge of their lives, with time lines of their important even ts and the top hits when looking them up at Beately Library. It will go further by showing you some good E-resources (offered by Beatley). Next it will list some articles found on these E-Resources to help you along on your research. At the bottom it will list books at the Boston Public Library so you can find other resources outside of Beately. Lastly as there were many more women involved in the Women's Rights Movement it will list some other women you might want to look into.



**By Name/ Subject:**
Campbell, K.K.(1993). // Women public speakers in the United States, 1800 // // -1925: a bio-critical source book. // Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press Call Number: Ref HQ 1412. W67 1993

O'Dea, S.(Ed).(2006).//From Suffrage to Senate: America's Political Women: An Encyclopedia of Leaders, Causes & Issues.// Millerton, NY: Grey House Pubisher Call Number: Ref HQ 1236.5. S32 2006

Smith,B.G (Ed). (2008). //The Oxford Encyclopedia in Women in World History//. New York: Oxford University Press. Call Number: Ref HQ1121. 093 2008

**By State:**
Wetherford, D. (ED). (2004). //A History of Women in the United States: State-by-State reference.// Danbury, Conn: Scholastic Library Publishing, Inc. Call Number: Ref HQ 1410. H58 2004

**By Years:**
Appleby, J.O (Ed). (2002). Encyclopedia of Women in American History. Armonk, NY: Sharpe Reference. Call Number: Ref HQ 1410. E53 2002

**General Books**

Baker, J.H. (2002). //Votes for Women: The Struggle for Suffrage Revisited//. New York: Oxford Call Number: JK1896 .V67 2002

Catt, C.C. (1923). // Woman suffrage and politics; The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement. //New York: C. Scribner's Sons. Call Number: JK1896. C3

Flexner, E. (1975). //Century of struggle : the woman's rights movement in the United States//. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Call Number: HQ1410. F6 1975

^Norton, M B. (2007). // Major problems in American Women's history : documents and essays. //Boston : Houghton Mifflin. Call Number: HQ1410. M34 1989

Ryan, M.P. (1990). //Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballot, 1825-1880.// Baltimore, MD: The John Hopkins University Press. Call Number: HQ 1391. U5 R9 1990

^Sklar, K.K.(2000). Women's Rights Emerges within the Antislavery Movement 1830-1870: A Brief History of Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. Call Number: HQ 1418. S57 2000

^Stanton, E. C. (1896) // History of Woman Suffrage. // Rochester, NY: Charles Mann. Call Number: JK1896 .S83

Wellman, J. (2004). //The Road t// //o Seneca Falls: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the First Woman's Rights Convention.// Chicago: University Illinois Press. Call Number: HQ 1413. S67 W45 2004

**Anti Suffragist Rea**﻿**ding**
==== Benjamin, A.M.G. (1991). // A history of the anti-suffrage movement in the United States from 1895 to 1920 : women against equality. //Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press. ==== Call Number: JK1896 .B46 1992

C amhi, J.J.(1994). //Women against women : American anti-suffragism, 1880-1920//. Brooklyn, N.Y. : Carlson Pub. Call Number: JK1896. C26 1994

Helpful Keyword Searches:
(For Beately Library)
 * Seneca Falls
 * Women Suffragist
 * Women's Rights AND 19th Century
 * Women's Rights AND Antebellum
 * Women's Votes AND History
 * Women's Movement AND 19th Century



Specific Biographies
=== Susan B. Anthony Quick Biography Findings=== Born: Feb 15, 1820 in Adams, MA. 1837-1838 Attended Friends (Quaker) Seminary in Philadelphia, PA. 1852- Founded N.Y. State Women's Temperance Society 1868- Formed Working Women's Association (with Mrs. Stanton) 1869- Founded National Woman Suffrage Association (with Mrs. Stanton) 1892-1900 President of Woman Suffrage Association Died: Mar. 13, 1906 in Rochester, NY.

Top Hits: Barry. K. (1988). //Susan B. Anthony: A Biography of a Singular Feminist.// New York: New York University Press. Call Number: HQ 1412. A55 B36 1988

^Harper, I. H.(1898-1908) //The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony; Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many from Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years.// Indianapolis: Hollenbeck Press. Call Numbers: JK 1899. A6 H3 (3 volumes)

^Stanton, E.C. (1997). //The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.// New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press. Call Numbers: HQ 1410. A2525 1997.



** Abigail Kelley Foster Quick Biography Findings** **See Also: Abby Kelley** Born: Jan. 15, 1811 in Pelh﻿am, MA. 1826-New England Friends Boarding School in <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-origin: initial; color: #000000;">Providence, R.I <span style="background-clip: initial; background-color: #ffffff; background-origin: initial; color: #000000;">1838- Starts abolitionist career 1840- Elected to the American Anti-Slavery Society Business Committee 1850- Helped organize & key speaker National Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, MA 1869- Supported Passage of 15th Amendment (made her enemy of some Suffragist) Died: Jan. 14, 1887 in Worcester, MA.

Top Hit: Sterling. D (1991). //Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelley and the Politics of the Antislavery.// New York: W.W. Norton & Company. Call Number: E 449. K29 S74 1991.

Good Resources: Bacon. M. H. (1986). //Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America.// San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers. Call Number: BX 7748. W64 B33 1986



=== Julia Ward Howe Quick Biography Findings=== Born: May 27, 1819 in New York, NY. 1868-1877 President of New England Woman Suffrage Association 1870-1878 President of Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association 1871- President of New England Women's Club 1873- Helped found Association for the Advancement of women 1893-1898 Director of the General Federation of Women't Clubs Died: Oct. 17, 1910 in New Port, RI.

Top Hits:

Grant, M.H. (1994). //Private Woman, Public Person: An Account of the life of Julia Ward Howe from 1819-1868.// Brooklyn, N.Y: Carlson Publisher. Call Number: PS2018. G73 1994

^Howe, J.W. (1913). //Julia Ward Howe and the Woman Suffrage Movement; A Selection from her Speeches and Essays.// <span style="font-family: tahoma,'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Helvetica,Arial,sans; line-height: normal;">Boston: D. Estes & Company. Call Number: JK1901. H7



=== Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quick Biography Findings=== Born: Nov. 12, 1815 in Johnstown,NY, 1848: Organized Women's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls. 1852: Founded New York State Women's Temperance Society. 1868: Founded Working Women's Association (with Anthony) 1869: Founded National Woman Suffrage Association (with Anthony) 1890-92: President, National American Woman Suffrage Association Died: Nov. 12, 1902 in New York, NY.

Top Hits:

Banner, L.W. (1980). //Elizabeth Cady Stanton, A Radical for Woman's Rights.// Boston: Little Brown & Company. Call Number: HQ 1413. S67 B35

Electronic Resource: Stanton, E.C. (1922). //Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences.// New York: Harper & Brother <span style="font-family: tahoma,'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Helvetica,Arial,sans; line-height: normal;">Access Alexander Street Press version. vol. 2 (volume 1 didn't lead anywhere)



=== Lucy Stone Quick Biography Findings=== Born: Aug. 13, 1818 in Brookfield, MA. 1847: Graduated from Oberlin College (First Massachusetts woman to receive a college degree) 1850: Organized Women's Rights Convention in Worcester, MA. 1869: Founded American Woman Suffrage Association 1872-93: Founder and Editor of //Woman's Journal// Died: Oct. 18, 1893 in Dorchester, MA.

Top Hits: Kerr, A.M.(1992). //Lucy Stone: Speaking out for Equality.// <span style="font-family: tahoma,'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Helvetica,Arial,sans; line-height: normal;">New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press. Call Number: HQ1413. S73 K47 1992

Million, J. (2003). //Woman's Voice, Woman's Place: Lucy Stone and the Birth of the Woman's Rights Movement.// Westport, Conn.: Praeger. Call Number: JK1899. S8 M545 2003 Electronic Primary Sources:  Stone, L. (1851). //The Proceedings of the Woman's Rights Convention,Held at Worcester, October 23rd & 24th, 1850.// Boston: Prentiss & Sawyer. <span style="font-family: tahoma,'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Helvetica,Arial,sans; line-height: normal;">Access Alexander Street Press version.

^= Good for primary documents __Underline Titles__= Annotations of Books

List of E-Resources

 * America: History and Life
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Biography in Context^
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Jstor
 * <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Massachusetts History Online
 * Women and Social Movement

Online Articles

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Baker, P. (1984). The Domestic Politics: Women and American Political Society, 1780-1920. //American Historical Review,// 89, 620-648. From America: History & Life Database ( <span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">5601835).


 * Dubois, E.C. (1987). <span style="background-position: 100% 50%; backgroundclip: initial; backgroundorigin: initial; color: #3a74a5; cursor: pointer; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; padding-right: 10px;">Outgrowing the Compact of the Fathers: Equal Rights, Woman Suffrage, and the United States Constitution, 1820-1878 Stable URL: []


 * Hall, M.D. (2002). Beyond Self-Interest: The Political Theory and Practice of Evangelical Women in Antebellum Women. //Journal of Church and State,// 44, 477-500. From America: History & Life Database (<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma,Verdana,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">7535660)


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">Isenberg, N. (1998). <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">[|Pillars in the Same Temple and Priests of the Same Worship: Woman's Rights and the Politics of Church and State in Antebellum America] . //The Journal of American History,// 98-128. From JSTOR <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;"> Stable URL: []


 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Levanader, C.F.(1995). <span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Bawdy Talk: The Politics of Women's Public Speech in The Lecturess and The Bostonians . // American Literature, // 467-485. From JSTOR. <span style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">[]


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Riegel,R.(1962). <span style="color: #3a74a5; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Split of Feminist Movement in 1869 <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">. ﻿ // The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 485-496. From JSTOR // //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 15px;">Stable: URL: //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14px;">@http://www.jstor.org/stable/1902567



Other women o﻿f Interest

 * Sojouner Truth (1797-1883) Quick Biography
 * Lucretia Coffin Mott ﻿(1793-1880) Quick Biography
 * Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) Quick Biography
 * Amelia Bloomer (1818-1894) Quick Biography
 * Carrie Chpman Catt (1859-1947) Quick Biography
 * Jane Addams (1860-1935) Quick Biography
 * Alice Paul (1885-1977)Quick Biography

Sources at Sights around Boston
Parker, Alison M. (2010). Articulating rights: nineteenth-century American women on race, reform, and the State. Boston Public Library. (Copley) Call Number: HQ 12365.U6P37 2010

Rossi, Ann M. (2005).//Created equal: women campaign for the right to vote, 1840-1920//. Washington : National Geographic, c2005. Boston Public Library. (Uphams Corner, Washington Village) Call Number: JK 1898.R67 2005x

Series:
Seavey, Lura R. (2005). //More than Petticoats. Remarkable Women of Massachusetts//. Boston Public Library. (<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Copley ) Call Number: CT 3262.M4R64 2004

Seavey, Lura R. (2005). //More than Petticoats. Remarkable Women of New York//. Boston Public Library. (<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Copley ) Call Number: CT 3260 .P48 2002

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"Quick Biography" were found on<span style="background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; cursor: pointer; padding-right: 10px;">Biography in Context

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Timelines (minus Abigail Kelley Foster) Wilson, V JR., & McClung, G.S. (2003) //The Book of Distinguished American Women.// Brookeville, MD: American Research Associates.

Created by: Blaire Hiebsch LIS-407 Simmons College