Adams, Marian Hooper.  The Letters of Mrs. Henry Adams, 1865-1883.  Edited by Ward Tharon.  Boston: Little Brown, 1936.

Addams, Jane.  Women at the Hague: the International Congress of Women and Its Results.  New York: Garland, 1972.

Alcott, Louisa May.  Life, Letters and Journals.  Compiled and edited by Ednah D. Cheney.  New York:  Gramercy Books, 1995. (reprint)

Alcott, Louisa May.  Work: A Story of Experience.  Edited with an introduction by J. S. Kasson.  New York:  Penguin Books, 1994.

Antin, Mary.  The Promised Land.  Boston. Houghton Mifflin, 1912; 1969.

Beard, Mary R.  America Through Women’s Eyes.  New York,  Greenwood Press, 1969 (1933).

Blackwell, Alice Stone.   Growing Up in Boston’s Gilded Age: the Journal of Alice Stone Blackwell.  Ed. Marlene D. Merrill.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990

Block, Adreienne Fried.  Amy Beach, Passionate Victorian: the life and work of an American Composer, 1867-1944.  Oxford University Press, 1998.

Bradstreet, Anne.  Works.  Edited by Jeannine Hensley; foreword by Adrienne Rich.  Cambridge:  Harvard/Belknap, 1967.

Chevigny, Bell Gale.  The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller’s Life and Writings.  Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1994.

Child, Lydia Marie.  The American Frugal Housewife.  1829-1850; 35 editions.  Boston: American Stationers Company.  Harper and Row, new ed., 1972.

Child, Lydia Marie.  Selected Letters 1817-1880.  Edited by Milton Meltzer et al.  Amherst: University of Masachusetts, 1982.

Drachman, Virginia.  Hospital with a Heart: the Paradox of Separatism at the New England Hospital.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1984.
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Eddy, Mary Baker.  Science and Health, with a Key to the Scriptures.  Christian Science Trustees, 1934.

Fairbanks, Henry.   Louise Imogen Guiney: Laureate of the Lost.  Albany: Magi Books, 1973

Farmer, Fannie Merritt.  The Original Boston Cooking School Cook Book, 1896.  New American Library (reprint) 1988.

Fields, Annie.  Authors and Friends. New York:  AMS Press, 1969(c1896)

Fuller, Margaret.  The Essential Fuller.  New Breunswick:  Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Fuller, Margaret.  Woman in the Nineteenth Century: An Authoritative Text, Background, and Criticism.  Norton, 1997.

Ginzberg, Lori D.  Women and the Work of Benevolence: Morality, Politics and Class in the Nineteenth-Century United States.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

Guiney, Louise Imogen.  Letters 1861-1920.  Edited by Grace Guiney.New York: Harpers, 1926.

Hamilton, Alice.   Exploring the Dangerous Trades: the Autobiography of Alice Hamilton.  Boston: Northeastern Press, 1985(c1955).

Hansen, Debra Gold.  Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society.   Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.

Haskell, Mary.  Beloved Prophet: Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, with her Private Journal.  Edited by Virginia Hilu.  Knopf, 1972.

Hays, Elinor Rice.  Morning Star: A Biography of Lucy Stone.  Harcourt, Brace, 1961

Howe, Helen.  The Gentle Americans.  New York: Harper and Row, 1965.

Howe, Julia Ward.  Reminiscences, 1819-1899. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1900.

Howe, M.A. DeWolfe.  Memories of a Hostess: a Chronicle of Eminent Friendships.  Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922.

Jacobs, Donald M., ed  Courage and Conscience: Black and White Abolitionists in Boston.  Published for the Boston Athenaeum.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1993.

Jacobs, Harriet.  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.  With an introduction and notes by Nell Irvin Painter.  New York: Penguin Press, 2000.

Karcher, Carolyn L.  The First Woman in the Republic: A Cultural Biography of Lydia Maria Child.  Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.

Kaledin, Eugenia.  The Education of Mrs. Henry Adams.  Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1981.

Larcom, Lucy.  A New England Girlhood.  Boston: New England Press, 1986.

Leach, Joseph.  Bright Particular Star: Life and Times of Charlotte Cushman.

Liddle, Elizabeth Ann, ed.  Wheelock College:  One Hundred Years, 1888/9 - 1988/9.  Boston: Wheelock, c1988.

Notable American Women 1601-1950  Ed.  E.T. James et al.  Cambridge:  Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1971, and Notable American Women, The Modern Period.  Ed. B. Sickerman and Carol Green.  Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1980.

Peabody, Elizabeth.  Letters of Elizabeth P. Peabody, American Renaissance Woman.  Middleton, Ct:  Wesleyan/Harper

Plympton, Ruth Talbot.  Mary Dyer: Biography of a Rebel Quaker.  Boston: Brandon, 1994.

Richards, Marilyn, ed.  Maria W. Stewart, America’s First Black Woman Political Writer.  Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987

Robinson, William Henry.  Phillis Wheatley.  Boston: The Old South Association, 1990.

Rogers, Katherine, ed.  The Meridian Anthology of Early American Women Writers, From Anne Bradstreet to Louisa May Alcott, 1650-1865.  New York: Meridian, 1991.

Shand-Tucci, Douglass.  The Art of Scandal: the life and times of Isabella Stewart Gardner.  HarperCollins, 1997.

Sherman, Sarah Way.  Sarah Orne Jewett: An American Persephone.  Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1989.

Stone, Lucy.  Friends and Sisters: Letters between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Blackwell, 1846-1893.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987.

Strom, Sharon Hartman.  Political Woman: Florence Luscomb and the Legacy of Radical Reform.  Temple University Press, 2001.

Taylor, Susie King.  A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs: Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops. Reprint of 1902 edition.  New York: Arno Press, 1968.

Tharp, Louise Hall.  Adventurous Alliance:  the Story of the Agassiz Family of Boston.  Little, Brown 1959.

Tharp, Louise Hall.  Mrs. Jack, A Biography.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1965.

Van Doren, Carl.  Jane Mecom, Favorite Sister of Benjamin Franklin.  Her Life here first fully narrated from their letters.  Clifton, NJ:  A.M. Keeley, 1973 (c1950).

Walsh, Mary Roth.  Doctors Wanted. No Women Need Apply. Sexual Barriers in the Medical Profession, 1835-1975.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976.

Wheatley, Phillis.  Complete Writings. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Vincent Caretta.  New York: Penguin, 2000.

Zagarri, Rosemarie.  A Woman’s Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 1995.
 
 

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