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Originally published in McClure's Magazine, Vol. 42, this was a series of humorous illustrations that tell the story of Suzanne, a suffragist, and her efforts to sway him by overexposing him to the anti-suffrage rhetoric of a neighbor, Mrs.…

Written by managing editor, Agnes E. Ryan, this pamphlet contains historical information on the "Woman's Journal." It includes an early list of stockholders and a description of the production process. It also includes illustrations of founders, Lucy…

Series: Baker's edition of plays

This comical play included thirteen characters identified as: "suffragette speaker" (2 characters), "anti-suffragette" (four characters), "suffragette" (two characters), "engaged" (1 character), "would like to be…

This pamphlet includes addresses by Paulina Wright Davis, Abby Price, and Harriet K. Hunt.
"Of the many points now under discussion and demanding a just settlement, the general question of Woman's Rights and Relations comprehends these:--Her…

Series: Anti-Slavery Tracts. No. 8. New Series

This is a reprint of a speech delivered to the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1853. Phillips discusses his belief that abolition is essential to perpetuate American democracy.

This pamphlet addresses and refutes common arguments against women's suffrage, sometimes in a humorous way.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a colonel in the military, minister, writer, and social reformer who advocated for women’s suffrage,…

Parker Pillsbury was an abolitionist orator and author who helped to draft the constitution of the American Equal Rights Association in 1865; served as vice-president of the New Hampshire Woman Suffrage; and in 1868 and 1869, edited "The Revolution"…

A speech given by Henry Fawcett at the last public meeting he attended where he and John Holms M.P., addressed their constituents in the Town Hall of Shoreditch. He urges the group to enfranchise "women householders."

Fawcett was a blind British…

Compilation of editorials, speeches, and extracts from journals about American entrepreneur, George Francis Train's trip to Kansas to stump for woman's suffrage. In November 1867, Kansas held a referendum to grant the vote to women and blacks in…

Lyda Maria Child was a journalist, editor scholar, and one of the most well-known novelists of the nineteenth century. After she began writing for the anti-slavery movement in 1831, her radical views resulted in a decrease in her popularity. From…