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• Social reformers

• Women social reformers -- Biography
• Women social reformers -- France
• Women social reformers -- Great Britain
• Women social reformers -- United States
• Women abolitionists
• Women civil rights workers
• Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
• Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
• Coffin, Rhoda M. (Rhoda Moorman), 1826-1909
• Comstock, Elizabeth L.
• Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876
• Roussel, Nelly, 1878-1922
• Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966
• Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
• Swisshelm, Jane Grey, 1815-1884

• Margery Spring Rice: Pioneer of Women's Health in the Early Twentieth Century (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by Lucy Pollard (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006), by Elinor Ann Accampo (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Harriet Martineau (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887), by Florence Fenwick Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (2 volume edition, with memorials; Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1877), by Harriet Martineau, ed. by Maria Weston Chapman (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)

• Killer Angel: A Biography of Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger (Franklin, TN: Ars Vitae Press; New York: Reformer Library, c1995), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)
• Rhoda M. Coffin: Her Reminiscences, Addresses, Papers and Ancestry (New York: Grafton Press, 1910), by Rhoda M. Coffin, ed. by Mary Coffin Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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
  • page images at loc.gov
• Life and Letters of Elizabeth L. Comstock (London: Headley Bros.; Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1895), by Elizabeth L. Comstock, ed. by Caroline Hare (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life and Letters of Elizabeth L. Comstock (second thousand; London: Headley Bros.; Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1895), by Elizabeth L. Comstock, ed. by Caroline Hare (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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)

• Half a Century (1880), by Jane Grey Swisshelm (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
• The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Compiled from Her Letters and Journals by Her Son (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1890), by Harriet Beecher Stowe, ed. by Charles Edward Stowe (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Wall Between (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1958), by Anne Braden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006), by Elinor Ann Accampo (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Retrospect of Western Travel (3 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1838), by Harriet Martineau
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
• Harriet Martineau's Autobiography (2 volume edition, with memorials; Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1877), by Harriet Martineau, ed. by Maria Weston Chapman (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
• Harriet Martineau (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887), by Florence Fenwick Miller (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Some Eminent Women of Our Times: Short Biographical Sketches (London and New York: Macmillan, 1889), by Millicent Garrett Fawcett (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century (New York: Dutton, 1903), by W. H. Davenport Adams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1906), by W. H. Davenport Adams (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Freethinkers of the Nineteenth Century (London: Chapman and Hall, 1920), by Janet E. Courtney (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women, by Elbert Hubbard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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

• Beloved Lady: A History of Jane Addams' Ideas on Reform and Peace (originally published 1967; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by John C. Farrell, contrib. by Charles A. Barker (HTML and PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)
• 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 Wall Between (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1958), by Anne Braden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rhoda M. Coffin: Her Reminiscences, Addresses, Papers and Ancestry (New York: Grafton Press, 1910), by Rhoda M. Coffin, ed. by Mary Coffin Johnson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Life and Letters of Elizabeth L. Comstock (London: Headley Bros.; Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1895), by Elizabeth L. Comstock, ed. by Caroline Hare (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life and Letters of Elizabeth L. Comstock (second thousand; London: Headley Bros.; Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1895), by Elizabeth L. Comstock, ed. by Caroline Hare (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Life and Letters of Elizabeth L. Comstock (London: Headley Bros.; Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1895), by Elizabeth L. Comstock, ed. by Caroline Hare (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Life and Letters of Elizabeth L. Comstock (second thousand; London: Headley Bros.; Philadelphia: J. C. Winston, 1895), by Elizabeth L. Comstock, ed. by Caroline Hare (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Killer Angel: A Biography of Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger (Franklin, TN: Ars Vitae Press; New York: Reformer Library, c1995), by George Grant (PDF with commentary at garynorth.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
  • page images at loc.gov

• Half a Century (1880), by Jane Grey Swisshelm (page images with commentary at loc.gov)
• Crusader and Feminist: Letters of Jane Grey Swisshelm, 1858-1865 (St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society, 1934), by Jane Grey Swisshelm, ed. by Arthur J. Larsen (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

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