Secondary Source

Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and US Modernism

Mary Chapman. Making Noise, Making News: Suffrage Print Culture and US Modernism. Oxford University Press, 2014.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Book-Academic

Google Books has significant excerpts of this book, which won the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Triennial Book Award in 2015; the Canadian Association of American Studies […] Read More

Secondary Source

Treacherous Texts: US Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946

Treacherous Texts: US Suffrage Literature, 1846-1946. Edited with an introduction by Mary Chapman and Angela Mills. Rutgers, 2011.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era, Suffrage Era | Media: Book Reviews, Book-Academic, Book-Non-Fiction

Treacherous Texts: U.S. Suffrage Literature, 1846–1946 is an anthology of diverse literature aimed at convincing Americans to support the suffrage movement that collects “more than sixty literary texts written by smart, […] Read More

Secondary Source

Finding Community in Nineteenth Century Suffrage Periodicals

"Finding Community in Nineteenth Century Suffrage Periodicals." Linda Steiner. American Journalism, Summer 1983, pp. 1-16.

Era: Post-Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Paper

This study by Professor Linda Steiner of the University of Maryland extends William Goode’s discussion of professions as communities to provide an analysis of the importance of periodicals in sustaining […] Read More

Archival Collection

Archive: Suffrage Resources of the National Woman’s Party

at the Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument, 144 Constitution Avenue, NE, Washington, DC

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Commentary, Leaflets, Magazines, Newspapers, Posters, Sketches

The National Woman’s Party collection at the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument in Washington, DC has a vast collection of books, periodicals, cartoons, scrapbooks, artifacts, and ephemera from the NWP’s […] Read More

Primary Source

Bertha Damaris Knobe, Spectacular Woman Suffrage in America

Bertha Damaris Knobe. "Spectacular Woman Suffrage in America." The Independent [New York] October 12, 1911, Vol. 71, p. 801.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Magazines

Bertha Damaris Knobe, a chronicler of the women’s movement for voting rights, penned a striking account of suffragist activism for The Independent magazine in October 1911. Setting out to document the diversity […] Read More

Primary Source

Novel: The Bostonians by Henry James

Henry James. The Bostonians. Macmillan and Co., February 1886 and many subsequent editions.

Era: Suffrage Era | Media: Academic Paper, Book-Fiction, Book-Novel, Magazines, Newspapers

Henry James’ The Bostonians was originally published as a serial in Century magazine (Vol. 30, 31, 1885-1886), starting in February 1885. Much of the magazine is digitized so the serial […] Read More