Fayetteville Free Library - Women's History Collection

Fayetteville Free Library
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The FFL Women's History Collection

Primarily focused on the 19^th and early 20^th century suffrage movement, this special collection of over two hundred titles ranges from scholarly research to lively personal memoirs. Audio, video and microfilm formats are included.

A specially identified shelving unit houses the collection for adults. Titles for children can be located in the Children’s Room of the library. Items can be requested for a standard three week loan period.

REFERENCE VIDEOS/AUDIO NON-FICTION BIOGRAPHY JUVENILE

March is Women’s History Month, an appropriate time to explore the Fayetteville Free Library’s Women’s History Special Collection of over 200 books and media ranging from scholarly research to lively personal memoirs. Visit the library at 300 Orchard Street in the historic Stickley factory building or request items online at fayettevillefreelibrary.org. The following list, created by Linda Ryan, Assistant Director, is a sampling of our collection:

"I Dwell in Possibility: Women Build a Nation, 1600-1920" by Donna Lucey. A panoramic view of three centuries of U.S. history presented in a vivid gallery of fascinating women, some familiar, others unknown, whose spirit of independence and sense of adventure have shaped the stories in this book, beautifully showcased in over one hundred paintings, photographs and artifacts.

"Great American Women’s Speeches" (sound recording) edited by Sharon Donovan. Listen to the words of the 19^th century luminaries Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and many others pleading their case for an equal voice for women, read by Eileen Heckart and other notables. Approximately 90 minutes on one cassette.

"Cartooning for Suffrage" by Alice Sheppard. Examine the rich history of the early 20^th century women’s movement as depicted in this elaborately illustrated compilation of political cartoons, providing vivid commentary on suffrage issues.

"Susan B. Anthony Slept Here: A guide to American Women’s Landmarks" by Lynn Sherr and Jurate Kazickas. Well documented with photos. Take a tour, state by state, and follow the paths of the women who helped shape our country.

"No Small Courage: A History of Women in the United States" edited by Nancy F. Cott. Letters, diary entries and news reports animate this chart of women’s gradual struggle for social and political independence from the pre-colonial era to the present Read about the challenges faced by women of different types and in many roles: wives, mothers, housekeepers, wage-earners, immigrants and migrants, community builders, political rebels, policy makers and intellectual innovators.

"Women’s Words, Women’s Stories: An American Daybook" edited and compiled by Lois Stiles Edgerly. Read this day by day record of the thoughts of 365 nineteenth century women. Each woman’s writing is presented on her birthday and includes insightful biographical notes and photos, offering an intimate visit with women from all walks of life.

"Here’s To the Women: 100 Songs For and About American Women" compiled by Hilda E. Wenner and Elizabeth Freilchler with a foreword by Pete Seeger. This anthology of traditional and contemporary songs with words and music places the songs in historical context and provides information about the songwriters. More than 50 photographs, bibliography and index included.

"History of Woman Suffrage" (computer file) A set of six volumes edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper in 1887. This accessible CD format makes it possible for today’s students to appreciate this full scale chronicle of the struggle for the rights of the woman. The Fayetteville Library houses first editions of the first four volumes of this seminal work in its Local History archives to acknowledge the work of Fayetteville’s first woman voter, Matilda Joslyn Gage.

"Not for Ourselves Alone (VHS): the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony", a film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes; written by Geoffrey C. Ward. Documentary footage on two video cassettes details the friendship of two women bound by their belief in equality as the birthright of every woman. The Women’s History collection includes additional related material, a faculty guide for teachers, a video index and a lavishly illustrated print companion volume to this PBS documentary film.

"Excluded from Suffrage History: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Nineteenth Century American Feminist" by Leila R. Brammer. Well researched account of the significant role played by Fayetteville’s controversial voice in the early battles for woman’s rights. While scholars have overlooked her contributions and influence, Gage’s work has been reassessed in recent decades. The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville continues to foster understanding and appreciation of the vital role Gage played in the movement.

TITLE/ REFERENCE	AUTHOR
National Citizen and Ballot Box, May 1878-October 1881	Gage, Matilda Joslyn (editor)
Women in scripture: a dictionary of named and unnamed women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical books, and the New Testament
Handbook of American women's history
Women, Church and state: a historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscences of the matriarchate	Gage, Matilda Joslyn
Women, Church, and state	Gage, Matilda Joslyn
Not for ourselves alone: the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: an illustrated history	Ward, Geoffrey C.
Not for ourselves alone	Ward, Geoffrey C.
Declaration of rights of women: 1876, the	Wagner, Sally Roesch
Sisters in spirit: Haudenasaunee (Iroquois) influence on early American feminists	Wagner, Sally Roesch
That word is liberty: a biography of Matilda Joslyn Gage	Wagner, Sally Roesch
Milestones: a chronology of American women's history	Weatherford, Doris
Women public speakers in the United States, 1800-1925: a bio-critical sourcebook
History of woman suffrage
Quotable woman, 1800-1975,the
Untold story of the Iroquois influence on early feminists, the	Wagner, Sally Roesch
Matilda Joslyn Gage: essays	Wagner, Sally Roesch
Harriet May Mills, 1857-1935: a biography	Watrous, Hilda R.
TITLE/ VIDEOS AND AUDIOCASSETTES	AUTHOR
Not for ourselves alone	VHS
Speeches of famous women	VHS
Dreams of equality	VHS
Let the women vote!	VHS
One woman, one vote	VHS
Recollections of Susan B. Anthony	VHS
Legacies: an audiocourse on the history of women and the family in America, 1607-1870
Great American women's speeches
Hurrah for woman suffrage: songs from the American Woman Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920	Homespun singers

TITLE/NON-FICTION	AUTHOR
Selected papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony	Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Riding the nightmare: women and witchcraft from the old world to colonial Salem	Williams, Selma R.
Radical Spirits: spiritualism and women's rights in 19th century America	Braude, Ann
Fox sisters and the performance of mystery, the	Chapin, David
Wisdom of oz, the	Morena, Gita
Woman's bible, the	Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Word according to Eve, the	Murphy, Cullen
Crucible of the Millenium: the burned-over district of New York in the 1840's	Barkun, Michael
Ladies of Seneca Falls: the birth of the woman's rights movement, the	Gurko, Miriam
Black women in white America: a documentary history
Women without superstition: "no gods - no masters": the collected writings of women free thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries
Underground railroad; a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, etc. narrating the hardships hair-breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author: together with sketches of some of the largest stockholders, and most liberal aiders and advisers of the road, the	Still, William
Girls: a history of growing up female in America	Colman, Penny
Real American girls tell their own stories
No small courage: a history of women in the United States
From ballots to breadlines: American Women, 1920-1940	Deutsch, Sarah
Sound of our own voices: women's study clubs, 1860-1910, the	Martin, Theodora Penny
Pushing the limits: American women, 1940-1961	May, Elaine Tyler
Women of ideas and what men have done to them: from Aphra Behn to Adrienne Rich	Spender, Dale
"Perhaps it is the person first and subject matter second": social relationships and the construction of cultural and civic curricula in a womens study club, 1885-1985	Hugo, Jane Mary
Women in modern America: a brief history	Banner, Lois W.
Female experience: an American documentary, the
Weaker vessel, the	Fraser, Antonia
Woman's life in colonial days	Holliday, Carl
Prospect before her: a history of women in Western Europe	Hufton, Olwen H.
Women of the Renaissance	King, Margaret L.
Creation of patriarchy	Lerner, Gerda
I dwell in possibility: women build a nation, 1600	Lucey, Donna M.
Subjection of women	Mill, John Stuart
Women at home in victorian America: a social history	Plante, Ellen M.
Reader's companion to U.S. women's history
American women in the progressive era, 1900-1920	Schneider, Dorothy
Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches	Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Vindication of the rights of woman, a	Wollstonecraft, Mary
Joyous greetings: first international women's movement, 1850-1860	Anderson, Bonnie S.
Exclusionary politics of social movements: Matilda Joslyn Gage and the National American Woman Suffrage Association	Brammer, Leila A.
Road to equality: American women since 1962, the	Chafe, William Henry
Woman, church and state: a historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscenes of the matriarchate	Gage, Matilda Joslyn
Breaking new ground: American women, 1800-1848	Goldberg, Michael L.
Feminist thought of Sarah Grimke	Grimke, Sarah Moore
Colonial mosaic: American women, 1600-1760, the	Kamensky, Jane
Women's rights movement and the Finger Lakes Region: the heart of New York State, the	Klees, Emerson
Creation of feminist consciousness: from the Middle ages to 1870, the	Lerner, Gerda
Golden cables of sympathy: the transatlantic sources of 19th century feminism	Mcfadden, Margaret
Not for ourselves alone: the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony	Ward, Geoffrey C.
Religion and revolution in the thought of Matilda Joslyn Gage (1826-1898)	Patrick, Lucia
Limits of independence: American women, 1760-1800, the	Salmon, Marylynn
Laborers for liberty: American women, 1865-1890	Sigerman, Harriet
Biographical supplement and index	Sigerman, Harriet
Unfinished battle: American women, 1848-1865, the	Sigerman, Harriet
New paths to power	Smith, Karen Manners
Voice of their own, A	Wagner, Sally Roesch
That word is liberty: a biography of Matilda Joslyn Gage	Wagner, Sally Roesch
Declaration of rights of women: 1876	Wagner, Sally Roesch
Sisters in spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) influence on early American feminists	Wagner, Sally Roesch
Literature as pulpit: the Christian social activism of Nellie L. McClung	Warne, Randi Ruth
Women's suffrage
Women's rights movement: opposing viewpoints
Room of one's own, A	Woolf, Virginia
Foreign and female: immigrant women in America, 1840-1930	Weatherford, Doris
Stolen childhood: slave youth in 19th century America	King, Wilma
Public years of Sarah and Angelina Grimke: selected writings, 1835-1839, the
Birth of feminism: the Seneca Falls woman's convention of 1848, the
Frederick Douglass on women's rights	Douglass, Frederick
Century of struggle	Flexner, Eleanor
From parlor to prison: five American suffragists talk about their lives
Women's suffrage in America: an eyewitness history	Frost-Knappman, Elizabeth
Splintered sisterhood: gender and class in the campaign against woman suffrage	Marshall, Susan E.
Nineteenth amendment: women's right to vote, the	Monroe, Judy
Spectacular suffrage: or, How women came out of the home and into the streets and theaters of New York City to win the vote	Bzowski, Judy
History of woman suffrage
One woman, one vote: rediscovering the woman suffrage movement
Jailed for freedom: American women win the vote	Stevens, Doris
Spectacle of women: imagery of the suffrage campaign, 1907-14, the	Tickner, Lisa
Time of protest: suffragists challenge the republic, a	Wagner, Sally Roesch
History of the American suffragist movement, a	Weatherford, Doris
Life for liberty; anti-slavery and other letters of Sallie Holley, a	Holley, Sallie
Women at work in medieval Europe	Cosman, Madeleine Pelner
Rosie the riveter: women working on the home front in WW II	Colman, Penny
Women in spiritual and communitarian societies in the United States
Desire and duty at Oneida: Tirzah Miller's intimate memoir	Herrick, Tirzah Miller
Martha Matilda Harper and the American dream: how one woman changed the face of modern business	Plitt, Jane R.
Salem witchcraft trials, the	Woods, Geraldine
Salem witchcraft trials, the	Zeinert, Karen
Prolife feminism: yesterday and today
Learning from the past: historical voices in early childhood education	Wolfe, Jennifer
Slave trade: the story of the Atlantic slave trade: 1440-1870	Thomas, Hugh
Early American cookery or Ye gentlewoman's housewifery: containing scarce, curious, and valuable receipts	Hooker, Margaret Huntington
Cartooning for suffrage	Sheppard, Alice
Anonymous was a woman
Here's to the women: 100 songs for and about American women
What are little girls made of?: a guide to female role models in children's books	Allen, Marjorie N.
Annotated wizard of oz: the wonderful wizard of oz	Baum, L. Frank
Fall River: an authentic narrative	Williams, Catherine Read
What Katy read	Foster, Shirley
Wonderful wizard of oz	Baum, L. Frank
Stealing freedom	Carbone, Elisa Lynn
Marietta Holley	Curry, Jane
Yellow wallpaper, the	Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Tirzah Ann's summer trip, and other sketches	Holley, Marietta
Uncle Tom's cabin	Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Little house in the Ozarks: a Laura Ingalls Wilder sampler: the rediscovered writings	Wilder, Laura Ingalls
Tales of the working girl: wage-earning women in American literature, 1890-1925	Hapke, Laura
Common cause: the "conservative" Frances Trollope and the "radical" Frances Wright, In	Kissel, Susan S.
To the lighthouse	Woolf, Virginia
Women of the world: women travelers and explorers	Stefoff, Rebecca
Demeter's daughters: the women who founded America, 1587-1787	Williams, Selma R.
Women in the Civil War	Savage, Douglas
Love across the color lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass	Diedrich, Maria
Untold story of the Iroquois influence on early feminists, the	Wagner, Sally Roesch
Tried and true, the	Demos, John
Underground railroad, the	Blockson, Charles L.
Now is the time!: the African-American struggle for freedom	Myers, Walter Dean
Susan B. Anthony slept here: a guide to American women's landmarks	Sherr, Lynn
Colonial folkways: a chronicle of everyday life in early America	Andrews, Charles McLean
Iroquois culture and commentary	George-Kanentiio, Doug
Kings, commoners, and colonists; Puritan politics in old New England, 1603-1660	Williams, Selma R.
Letter kills but the spirit gives life: the Smiths--abolitionists, suffragists, Bible translators, the	Housley, Barbara S.
Fayetteville's first woman voter--Matilda Joslyn Gage	Rivette, Barbara
Matilda Joslyn Gage: she who holds the sky	Wagner, Sally Roesch
Matilda Joslyn Gage: woman suffrage historian, 1852-1898	Wagner, Sally Roesch
Slaves in the family	Ball, Edward
Women's diaries of the westward journey
TITLE/ BIOGRAPHY	AUTHOR
Failure is impossible: Susan B. Anthony in her own words	Sherr, Lynn
Susan B. Anthony: a biographical companion	Harper, Judith E.
Susan B. Anthony, the woman who changed the mind of a nation	Dorr, Rheta Louise
Antoinette Brown Blackwell, a biography	Cazden, Elizabeth
Harriot Stanton Blatch and the winning of woman suffrage	Dubois, Ellen Carol
Life and writings of Amelia Bloomer	Bloomer, Dexter C.
America's first woman lawyer: the biography of Myra Bradwell	Friedman, Jane M.
Molly Brant: a legacy of her own	Huey, Lois M.
Olympia Brown: the battle for equality	Cote, Charlotte
Crusader for freedom: a life of Lydia Maria Child	Clifford, Deborah Pickman
Millie, M.D.: the story of a 19th century woman, 1846-1927	Stringer, Helen Dann
Frederick Douglass and the fight for freedom	Miller, Douglas T.
There once was a slave	Du Bois, Shirley Graham
Authority, autonomy, and radical commitment: Stephen and Abby Kelley Foster	Bernard, Joel
Matilda Joslyn Gage: woman suffrage historian, 1852-1898	Corey, Mary E. Paddock
Excluded from suffrage history: Matilda Joslyn Gage, 19th century American feminist	Brammer, Leila R.
Caty: a biography of Catharine Littlefield Greene	Stegeman, John F.
Grimke sisters from South Carolina: pioneers for woman's rights and abolition, the	Lerner, Gerda
Divine rebel: the life of Anne Marbury Hutchinson	Williams, Selma R.
Fanny Kemble's civil wars	Clinton, Catherine
Religious liberty on trial: Hanserd Knollys, early Baptist hero	James, Muriel
King's midwife: a history and mystery of Madame du Coudray, the	Gelbart, Nina Rattner
Harriet May Mills, 1857-1935: a biography	Watrous, Hilda R.
Private war of Mrs. Packard, the	Sapinsley, Barbara
Intimate enemies: the two worlds of the Baroness de Pontalba	Vella, Christina
Caroline Pratt: a biography	Carlton, M. Patricia
America's first woman chemist	Douty, Esther Morris
American life of Ernestine L. Rose, the	Kolmerten, Carol A.
Recollections of my slavery days	Singleton, William Henry
I Speak for my slave sister: the life of Abby Kelley Foster	Bacon, Margaret Hope
Eighty years and more: reminiscences, 1815-1897	Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Created equal; a biography of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902	Lutz, Alma
You want women to vote, Lizzie Stanton?	Fritz, Jean
Harriet Beecher Stowe: a biography	Gerson, Noel
Narrative of Sojourner Truth	Gilbert, Olive
Sojourner Truth: a voice for freedom	Mckissack, Pat
Pioneer prophetess: Jemima Wilkinson, the Publick Universal friend	Wisbey, Herbert A.
Frances Willard: a biography	Bordin, Ruth
How I learned to ride the bicycle: reflections of an influential 19th century woman	Willard, Frances Elizabeth
Mary Wollstonecraft: a revolutionary life	Todd, Janet M.
Mary Wollstonecraft; a biography	Flexner, Eleanor
Other powers: the age of suffrage, spiritualism, and the scandalous Victoria Woodhull	Goldsmith, Barbara
Notorious Victoria: the life of Victoria Woodhull, uncensored	Gabriel, Mary
TITLE/ JUVENILE	AUTHOR
19th century girls and women	Kalman, Bobbie
Bloomers!	Blumberg, Rhoda
Women in 19th-century America	Macdonald, Fiona
Bobbin girl, the	McCully, Emily Arnold
Let it shine: stories of Black women freedom fighters	Pinkney, Andrea Davis
Working for equality	MacDonald, Fiona
Women's voting rights	Harvey, Miles
Women's suffrage	Sagan, Miriam
From slave ship to freedom road	Lester, Julius
Women who shaped history	Buckmaster, Henrietta
Sisters in strength: American women who made a difference	McDonough, Yona Zeldis
If you traveled on the underground railroad	Levine, Ellen
Witchcraft of Salem Village, the	Jackson, Shirley
You forgot your skirt, Amelia Bloomer!	Corey, Shana
Heroine of the Titanic: a tale both true and otherwise of the life of Molly Brown, the	Blos, Joan W.
Ladies were not expected: Abigail Scott Duniway and women's rights	Morrison, Dorothy Nafus
Steamboat!: the story of Captain Blanche Leathers	Gilliland, Judy Heide
Lucretia Mott: a photo-illustrated biography	Davis, Lucile
Tea with an old dragon: a story of Sophia Smith, founder of Smith College	Yolen, Jane
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and women's liberty	Cullen-DuPont, Kathryn
Ballot box battle, the	McCully, Emily Arnold
Oh, Lizzie!: the life of Elizabeth Cady Stanton	Faber, Doris
Road to Seneca Falls: a story about Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the	Swain, Gwenyth
Harriet: the life and world of Harriet Beecher Stowe	Johnston, Norma
Susie King Taylor: destined to be free	Jordan, Denise
Sojourner Truth: a voice for freedom	Mckissack, Pat
Picture book of Sojourner Truth, a	Adler, David A.
Mary Wollstonecraft and the rights of women	Miller, Calvin Craig
List last updated: June 10, 2003

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