Women social reformers -- United States
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Broader terms:Narrower terms:- Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography
- Women abolitionists -- United States
- Women civil rights workers -- United States
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
- Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
- Coffin, Rhoda M. (Rhoda Moorman), 1826-1909
- Comstock, Elizabeth L.
- Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966
- Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919
- Swisshelm, Jane Grey, 1815-1884
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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 usembassy.gov)
- 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
- 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)
- Letters of Lydia Maria Child, With a Biographical Introduction by John G. Whittier and an Appendix by Wendell Phillips (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883), by Lydia Maria Child, ed. by Harriet Winslow Sewall, contrib. by John Greenleaf Whittier and Wendell Phillips (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
- 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)
- Black and White Tangled Threads (printed with sequel, "Kenneth"; 1920), by Zara Wright (multiple formats at Google)
- The Wall Between (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1958), by Anne Braden (page images at HathiTrust)
- 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)
- Lynching and Rape: An Exchange of Views (occasional paper #25, revised; New York: American Institute for Marxist Studies, c1982), ed. by Bettina Aptheker, contrib. by Jane Addams and Ida B. Wells-Barnett (multiple formats at archive.org)
- 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)
- 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
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Filed under: Women social reformers -- Biography- 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)
- 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)
- Retrospect of Western Travel (3 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1838), by Harriet Martineau
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation (1905 edition), by Carry Amelia Nation
- Samuel Joseph May. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, September 12th, 1797. Died in Syracuse, New York, July 1st, 1871 (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse Journal Office, 1871), ed. by Unitarian Congregational Society (Syracuse, N.Y.)
- 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
- 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 (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)
- 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
- 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
- An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, With Reference to the Duty of American Females (second edition, 1837), by Catharine Esther Beecher (HTML at Virginia)
- Exposition of the Object and Plans of the American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race (ca. 1835), by American Union for the Relief and Improvement of the Colored Race
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