Tag: Women's Rights

In Defence of Women

Philosophy

In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken’s 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while others brand...

In Defence of Women

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H.L Mencken

The Bostonians

Fiction Novel

The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bitterswee...

The Bostonians

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Henry James

Sybil, or the Two Nations

Fiction Novel

Sybil, or The Two Nations is an 1845 novel by Benjamin Disraeli. Published in the same year as Friedrich Engels's The Condition of the Working Class i...

Sybil, or the Two Nations

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Benjamin Disraeli

Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart

Poetry Political Science Non-Fiction

Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery and women's...

Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart

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Maria W. Stewart

Woman in Science

History Non-Fiction Science

A history of woman's role in science through the ages and the many contributions she has made.

Woman in Science

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John Augustine Zahm

Old Rail Fence Corners

Memoir

Old Rail Fence Corners is an historical treasure trove containing the stories of the first significant waves of European-American settlers in the now...

Old Rail Fence Corners

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Lucy Leavenworth Wilder Morris

Sabotage

Political Science

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a leading American socialist and feminist. Her book "Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' industrial efficien...

Sabotage

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Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian

History Biography

An in-depth narrative of Susan B Anthony's life from a small girl to old age. It covers historic events throughout her lifetime. Including the electio...

Susan B. Anthony: Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian

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Alma Lutz

Belinda

Comedy Novel

When Belinda was published in 1801, it became both controversial and popular. Controversial because of the inter-racial marriage presented in the nove...

Belinda

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Maria Edgeworth

Eros & Psyche; a poem in twelve measures

Poetry

As Psyche - the youngest daughter of a petty Cretan king - grows into the full flower of womanhood, she becomes worshiped by the common people as the...

Eros & Psyche; a poem in twelve measures

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Robert Bridges

Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

Biography

Susan and Elizabeth led the women’s rights establishment of the time to withhold support for a bill that would extend to black men the rights still de...

Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Girl Scout Collection

Essays

Girl Scouts were prepared through their training for merit badges to be independent, resourceful, reliable, and helpful. They were able to make their...

Girl Scout Collection

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Various

Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are and Isn't That Just Like a Man!

Humour

First Cobb talks about women and their annoying habits, such as talking in building entrances, not having their fare ready on the streetcar, getting o...

Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are and Isn't That Just Like a Man!

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Mary Roberts Rinehart

Selected Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell

Poetry

Currer Bell is Charlotte, Ellis Bell is Emily, and Acton Bell is Anne. Tragically, the free kindle volume doesn’t list who wrote each individual poem,...

Selected Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell

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Anne Brontë

Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman

Novel

Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Righ...

Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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