From Jone Johnson Lewis,
Your Guide to Women's History.
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Electronic texts or etexts of original source material illuminating women's history. Includes biographies, articles, speeches, essays, poems, obituaries, court decisions and more. This list of electronic texts is arranged alphabetically by author, publisher, or, for biographies, by subject.

Addams, Jane

• A Modern Lear (1896/1912)

Alcott, Louisa May

• An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (1881)
• Little Women Christmas

Anthony, Susan B.

• 1908 Obituary - New York Times

Anonymous, Unattributed and Collections

• The Bicycle and Health (1894)
• Columbian Exposition 1893
  • Laura Ormiston Chant - Duty of God to Man
  • Julia Ward Howe - What Is Religion?
  • Ida Hultin - Essential Oneness of Ethical Ideas
  • Lucy Stone - The Progress of Fifty Years
• Life editorial on woman suffrage, 1906

Barton, Clara

• The Women Who Went to the Fields

Beers, Ethel Lynn

• All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight - The Picket

Blackmun, Stewart, Rehnquist, Burger, Douglas and White, Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court

• Roe v. Wade - Supreme Court decision, with concurring and dissenting opinions

Brackett, Anna C.

• Maria Mitchell

Brisbane, Arthur

• Why Women Should Vote

Bush, George W. - see Presidential Proclamations

Calthrop, Dion Clayton

• Early English Costume (women and children)

Catherine of Siena

• Joan of Arc and Catherine of Siena, Francis C. Lowell, 1896

Catt, Carrie Chapman

• Speech Before Congress - 1917

Chant, Laura Ormiston

• Duty of God to Man (1893)

Child, Lydia Maria

• Lydia Maria Child - Anti-Slavery Correspondence
• Lydia Maria Child by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Clinton, Bill - see Presidential Proclamations

Princess Der Ling

• Two Years in the Forbidden City - Princess Der Ling - First Lady in Waiting to the Empress Dowager

Du Bois, W.E.B.

• Suffering Suffragettes - 1912

Eastman, Crystal

• Now We Can Begin - 1920

Elizabeth ("Old Elizabeth")

• Memoir of Old Elizabeth - 1863

Elliott, Rev. H. B.

• Elizabeth Blackwell - Woman As Physician from Eminent Women of the Age

Encyclopedia Britannica

• Women - an entry in the 1911 edition, divided by subtopic

Ferrero, Gugliermo

• Women and Marriage in Ancient Rome from The Women of the Caesars, 1911.

Gage, Frances

• Address To The First Anniversary of the American Equal Rights Association - 1867
• Sojourner Truth: Ain't I a Woman? 1851 (account by Frances Gage, 1881)

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins

• The Yellow Wallpaper originally published in 1892

Goldman, Emma

• Anarchism and Other Essays

Gordon, Irwin Leslie

• Who Was Who: 5000 B. C. to Date: Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be (women's biographies extracted)

Gruening, Martha

• Two Suffrage Movements - 1912

Haaren, John H. and A. B. Poland

• Joan of Arc in Famous Men of the Middle Ages, 1904.

Hale, Sarah Josepha

• Our National Thanksgiving 1858, Godey's Lady's Book

Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins (Frances E. W. Harper)

• Enlightened Motherhood - November 15, 1892

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

• Lydia Maria Child Biography - 1900
• Marriage Protest of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell - 1855
• Woman and Her Wishes - 1853

Hollar, Wenceslaus

• Illustrations of women in period costume (17th century) - from 1906 reproductions

Howe, Julia Ward

• Battle Hymn of the Republic
• Mother's Day Proclamation
• What Is Religion?
• Harriet Townsend on Julia Ward Howe

Hultin, Ida C.

• Essential Oneness of Ethical Ideas

Ingelow, Jean

• Jean Ingelow (1915, The Mentor)

Joan of Arc

• Joan of Arc in Famous Men of the Middle Ages, 1904, by John H. Haaren and A. B. Poland.
• Joan of Arc and Catherine of Siena, Francis C. Lowell, 1896

Johnson, Helen Kendrick

• Woman and the Republic - An Anti-Suffrage Argument by Helen Kendrick Johnson - 1897, with later additions

Jones, Mother (Mary Harris Jones)

• Autobiography of Mother Jones

Mayo, A. D.

• The Woman's Movement in the South: October 1891

Mitchell, Maria

• Reminscences of the Herschels (1889)
• Maria Mitchell by Anna C. Brackett (1889)

Leonowens, Anna

• The English Governess at the Siamese Court - Notice - The Ladies' Repository
• The English Governess at the Siamese Court - Notice - Overland Monthly
• The Romance of the Harem - Contemporary Review

Lowell, Francis C.

• Joan of Arc and Catherine of Siena, 1896

Miller, Alice Duer

• Are Women People?

Owen, Robert Dale

• Marriage Protest, 1832

Palmer, Alice Freeman

• Why Go to College? - n.d.

Parton, James

• Queen Victoria from Eminent Women of the Age

Sanger, Margaret

• The Case for Birth Control - 1924

Spencer, Anna Garlin

• After Motherhood from Woman's Share in Social Culture

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

• Comments on Genesis from The Woman's Bible - 1895- 1898
• Reminiscences from The History of Woman Suffrage
• Solitude of Self
• We Now Demand Our Right to Vote - 1848

Stone, Lucy

• Marriage Protest of Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell
• The Progress of Fifty Years (1893)

Townsend, Harriet

• Reminiscences
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Abby Morton Diaz
  • Julia Ward Howe
  • Maria Mitchell
  • Frances Willard

Truth, Sojourner

• Ain't I a Woman? 1851 (account by Frances Gage, 1881)

Wollstonecraft, Mary

• A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)