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• Women social reformers -- United States
• Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
• Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906
• Bailey, Bill
• Brown, John, 1800-1859
• Coffin, Levi, 1798-1877
• Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
• Foster, William Z., 1881-1961
• Fuller, Margaret, 1810-1850
• Haywood, Big Bill, 1869-1928
• Howe, Julia Ward, 1819-1910
• Janney, Samuel M. (Samuel Mcpherson), 1801-1880
• Jones, Mother, 1837-1930
• Nation, Carry Amelia, 1846-1911
• Ntantala, Phyllis
• Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966
• Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
• Springer, Maida
• Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902
• Swisshelm, Jane Grey Cannon, 1815-1884
• Truth, Sojourner, -1883
• Willard, Frances E. (Frances Elizabeth), 1839-1898

• Glimpses of Fifty Years: The Autobiography of an American Woman (Toronto: Woman's Temperance Pub. Association; Rose, 1889), by Frances E. Willard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography, by Bill Bailey (HTML at larkspring.com)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Boston: For the Author, 1875), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Frances W. Titus
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Battle Creek, MI: For the author, 1878), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Frances W. Titus (HTML at LOC)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"; Also, a Memorial Chapter, Giving the Particulars of Her Last Sickness and Death (Battle Creek, MI.: Review and Herald Office, 1884), by Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert, and Frances W. Titus (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 (Boston: The author, 1850; main text as reprinted by Oxford University Press in 1991), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Theodore Dwight Weld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 (Boston: The Author, 1850), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Theodore Dwight Weld (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation (1905 edition), by Carry Amelia Nation
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, With Reference to the Duty of American Females (second edition, 1837), by Catharine Esther Beecher (HTML at Virginia)

• On a Labor Faker's Trail: The Shady Record of Frank Farrington (Chicago: Workers Party of America, ca. 1924), by T. J. O'Flaherty (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Women of Influence (Washington: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2006), ed. by George Clack and Mildred Sola Neely (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at america.gov)

• Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes (copyright 1910; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1912), by Jane Addams (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (3 volumes published in Indianapolis, 1898-1908), by Ida Husted Harper, contrib. by Susan B. Anthony
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume III: multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• The Speech of Sara Bard Field: Presenting to Congress on Behalf of the Women of the Nation, the Marble Busts of Three Suffrage Pioneers, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton Cady, Susan Brownell Anthony (1921), by Sara Bard Field (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian (Washington: Zenger Pub. Co., c1959), by Alma Lutz (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Kid from Hoboken: An Autobiography, by Bill Bailey (HTML at larkspring.com)

• The Anti-Slavery History of the John Brown Year (originally published 1861), by American Anti-Slavery Society, ed. by Joe Lockard (multiple formats at eserver.org)
• Old John Brown: The Man Whose Soul is Marching On, by Walter Hawkins (Gutenberg text)
• The Two Rebellions; or, Treason Unmasked. By a Virginian (Richmond: Smith, Bailey & Co., Sentinel Office, 1865), by William McDonald (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad, by Levi Coffin (page images at MOA)

• Frederick Douglass (1899), by Charles W. Chesnutt (Gutenberg text)
• Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1881), by Frederick Douglass (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• My Bondage and My Freedom, by Frederick Douglass
  • HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at MOA
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave (1845), by Frederick Douglass
  • HTML at Virginia
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at eserver.org
  • Gutenberg text

• Foster-Ford: The Candidates of the Working Youth (New York: Youth Publishers, 1932) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Futility of Fosterism (Winnipeg: One Big Union Bulletin, ca. 1923), by Ben Legere (multiple formats at archive.org)
• More Pages From a Worker's Life (Occasional paper - American Institute for Marxist Studies #32; 1979), by William Z. Foster, ed. by Arthur Zipser (multiple formats at archive.org)
• W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1932), by Arnold Petersen (PDF at fcla.edu)
• W. Z. Foster: Renegade or Spy? (with appendices; New York: New York Labor News Co., 1945), by Arnold Petersen (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies (c1905), by Seth Curtis Beach
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1883), by Julia Ward Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (2 volumes; Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1857), by Margaret Fuller, contrib. by James Freeman Clarke, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and W. H. Channing
  • volume I: page images at MOA
  • volume II: page images at MOA

• Bill Haywood's Book: The Autobiography of William D. Haywood (New York: International Publishers, 1969), by Big Bill Haywood (page images at HathiTrust)

• Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915), by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards and Maud Howe Elliott, contrib. by Florence Howe Hall (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Memoirs of Samuel M. Janney, by Samuel M. Janney (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Autobiography of Mother Jones (Chicago: C. H. Kerr and Co., 1925), by Mother Jones, ed. by Mary Field Parton, contrib. by Clarence Darrow (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation (1905 edition), by Carry Amelia Nation
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• A Life's Mosaic: The Autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993), by Phyllis Ntantala (HTML at UC Press)

• Killer Angel: A Biography of Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger, by George Grant (PDF and JavaScript-dependent HTML at entrewave.com)
• Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography (scroll down to find this book among other writings; New York: W. W. Norton, c1938), by Margaret Sanger (PDF files with commentary at lifedynamics.com)

• The Story of a Pioneer, by Anna Howard Shaw
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • HTML and page images at LOC

• Maida Springer: Pan-Africanist and International Labor Leader (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, c2000), by Yevette Richards (searchable page images at Pitt)

• Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 (New York: T. Fisher Unwin, 1898), by Elizabeth Cady Stanton (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• The Speech of Sara Bard Field: Presenting to Congress on Behalf of the Women of the Nation, the Marble Busts of Three Suffrage Pioneers, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Stanton Cady, Susan Brownell Anthony (1921), by Sara Bard Field (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Crusader and Feminist: Letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858-1865, by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm, ed. by Arthur J. Larsen (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Half a Century, by Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm (HTML and page images at LOC)

• Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Boston: For the Author, 1875), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Frances W. Titus
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence, Drawn from Her "Book of Life" (Battle Creek, MI: For the author, 1878), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Frances W. Titus (HTML at LOC)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth; A Bondswoman of Olden Time, Emancipated by the New York Legislature in the Early Part of the Present Century; With a History of Her Labors and Correspondence Drawn from Her "Book of Life"; Also, a Memorial Chapter, Giving the Particulars of Her Last Sickness and Death (Battle Creek, MI.: Review and Herald Office, 1884), by Sojourner Truth, Olive Gilbert, and Frances W. Titus (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 (Boston: The author, 1850; main text as reprinted by Oxford University Press in 1991), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Theodore Dwight Weld (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828 (Boston: The Author, 1850), by Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert, contrib. by Theodore Dwight Weld (HTML and TEI at UNC)

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