Books

The books below may be useful for locating additional information on the suffrage movement. The amount of material available on the Suffrage Movement makes it difficult to create a comprehensive list; thus this is meant to only be a starting point. Many of these materials can be found in Rochester area libraries. Search Worldcat.org to find out where you can get these materials.

  • An account of the proceedings on the trial of Susan B. Anthony on the charge of illegal voting at the presidential election in Nov., 1872, and on the trial of Beverly W. Jones, Edwin T. Marsh and William B. Hall, the inspectors of elections by whom her vote was received. Rochester, NY: Daily Democrat and Chronicle Book Print, 1874.
  • The Legacy Of New York Women: 1848 – 1998. Honors women for each of county in New York State. Published by the Governor’s Commission Honoring the Achievements of Women, available from the New York State Division for Women, Tel: 212-681-4547.
  • Proceedings of the Woman’s Rights Conventions, held at Seneca Falls & Rochester, N.Y., July & August 1848. R. J. Johnston, 1870.
  • Anthony, Susan B.; Gage, Matilda Joslyn; Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (editors). History of Woman Suffrage. Rochester, NY: S.B. Anthony, 1889-c1922.
  • Buhle, Mari Jo and Paul (editors). The Concise History of Woman Suffrage: Selections from the Classic Work of Stanton, Anthony, Gage, and Harper. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978.
  • Catt, Carrie Chapman. Do You Know? Warren Ohio: National American Woman Suffrage Association Headquarters (1902?). (Pamphlet)
  • Catt, Carrie Chapman & Shuler, Nettie Rogers. Woman Suffrage and Politics; the Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement. New York, C. Scribner’s Sons, 1923.
  • Colman, Lucy Newhall. Reminiscences. Buffalo, NY: H. L. Green, 1891.
  • Coolidge, Olivia E. Women’s Rights; the Suffrage Movement in America, 1848-1920. New York, Dutton, 1966.
  • Davis, Lucile. Susan B. Anthony: a Photo-Illustrated Biography. Mankato, MN: Bridgestone Books, 1998.
  • DuBois, Ellen Carol. Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 1997.
  • Flexner, Eleanor. Century of Struggle; the Woman’s Rights Movement in the United States. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1959.
  • Freeman, Jo. A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000. The book gives an account of the rise of women as active participants in American politics over more than a century.
  • Giele, Janet Zollinger. Two Paths to Women’s Equality: Temperance, Suffrage, and the Origins of Modern Feminism. New York: Twayne Publishers, c1995.
  • Gluck, Sherna (editor). From Parlor to Prison: Five American Suffragists Talk About Their Lives. New York: Octagon Books, 1976.
  • Gurko, Miriam. The Ladies of Seneca Falls; the Birth of the Woman’s Rights Movement. New York: Macmillan. 1974.
  • Hooker, Isabella Beecher. The constitutional rights of the women of the United States: an address before the International Council of Women, Washington, D.C., March 30, 1888. Hartford, CN: Hartford Press, Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1900.
  • Irwin, Inez Haynes. The Story of the Woman’s Party. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1921.
  • Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself. [L. Maria Child, editor] Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987.
  • Johnson, Helen Kendrick. Woman and the Republic: a Survey of the Woman Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of its Foremost Advocates. New York: Guidon Club, 1913.
  • Kurland, Gerald. Lucretia Mott, Early Leader of the Women’s Liberation Movement. Charlotteville, NY: SamHar Press, 1972.
  • Miller, Elizabeth Smith. Scrapbooks of Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller. 1897. Consists of newspaper clippings, pamphlets, programs, letters, and photos pertaining especially to the Geneva Political Equality Club and the Women’s Social and Political Union.
  • Miller, Francis Esq. Argument before the Judiciary committee of the House of Representatives upon the petition of 600 citizens asking for the enfranchisement of the women of the District of Columbia, Jan. 21, 1874. Washington, DC: Gibson Brothers, 1874.
  • Montgomery, Helen Barrett. Equal Suffrage. United States (1895?).
  • National American Woman Suffrage Association. Victory, How Women Won It; a Centennial Symposium, 1840-1940. New York: The H. W. Wilson Company, 1940.
  • Plumb, David. Citizenship and Suffrage: the Power and Duty of Congress to Enfranchise the Nation. Boston: W.F. Brown & Co., 1868. (Pamphlet)
  • Porritt, Annie G. & Björkman, Frances M. (editors). Woman Suffrage. New York: the National Woman Suffrage Pub. Co., 1915. A collection of seven popular booklets covering practically the entire field of suffrage claims and evidence.
  • Rembaugh, Bertha. The Political Status of Women in the United States. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1911. A digest of the laws concerning women in the various states and territories. The introduction was written by Harriot Stanton Blatch.
  • Squire, Belle. The Woman Movement in America. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1911.
  • Stalcup, Brenda (editor). Women’s Suffrage. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000.
  • Stanton, Elizabeth Cady. Suffrage, a Natural Right. Chicago: Open Court Pub. Co., 1894.
  • Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn. African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote 1850-1920. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1998.
  • U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Woman Suffrage. Woman Suffrage…Report. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1918.
  • Upton, Harriet Taylor (editor). Proceedings of the Twenty-fifth Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (January 16 – 19, 1893). Washington, DC: National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1893.
  • Vacca, Carolyn Summers. A Reform Against Nature: Woman and the Rethinking of American Citizenship, 1840-1920. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester, 1998.
  • Venet, Wendy Hamand. Neither Ballots Nor Bullets: Women Abolitionists and the Civil War. Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1991.