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The Women of the Arabs
by Henry Harris Jessup
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The Business of Being a Woman
by Ida M. Tarbell
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The Women Who Came in the Mayflower
by Annie Russell Marble
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A Domestic Problem: Work and Culture in the Household
by Mrs. Abby Morton Diaz
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Woman on the American Frontier
by William Worthington Fowler
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5th to 6th grade reading level — good to read with the “Little House” books.
Some of the stories are a bit frightening, use with adult discretion especially with a sensitive child. Highly Recommended! — MM

The Pilgrims of New England
by Mrs. J. B. Webb
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Woman’s Life in Colonial Days
by Carl Holliday
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Making Both Ends Meet
The income and outlay of New York working girls
by Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt
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Journalism for Women
by Arnold Bennett
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Notable Women of Modern China
by Margaret E. Burton
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Women Wage-Earners
Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
by Helen Stuart Campbell
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Female Suffrage: a Letter to the Christian Women of America
by Susan Fenimore Cooper
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Women and War Work
by Helen Fraser
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An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
by Angelina Emily Grimke
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A Short History of Women’s Rights
From the Days of Augustus to the Present Time.
with Special Reference to England and the United States.
by Eugene A. Hecker
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What Eight Million Women Want
by Rheta Childe Dorr
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Women and the Alphabet
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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In Defense of Women
by H. L. Mencken
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Are Women People?
A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times
by Alice Duer Miller
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Charming and amusing with a sharp intelligent edge.
Recommended for boys & girls ages 12 and up. Short book of rhymes. — MM

Women Workers in Seven Professions
by Edith J. Morley
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The Woman Who Toils
by Marie Van Vorst and Mrs. John Van Vorst
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Fascinating story about two upper-class women who go undercover as lower-class shop girls.
Recommended for ages 12 and up — MM

The Grimké Sisters
Sarah and Angelina Grimké: the First American Women Advocates of
Abolition and Woman’s Rights
by Catherine H. Birney
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Woman in Modern Society
by Earl Barnes
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Mobilizing Woman-Power
by Harriot Stanton Blatch
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A Practical Illustration of “Woman’s Right to Labor”
by Marie E. Zakrzewska
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Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and
Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman.
by Margaret Fuller Ossoli.
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Kings, Queens and Pawns
An American Woman at the Front [WWI]
by Mary Roberts Rinehart
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Woman Suffrage By Federal Constitutional Amendment

Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States,
2nd Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887
by Various
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The Story of a Pioneer
by Elizabeth Garver Jordan and Anna Howard Shaw
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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
by Helen Kendrick Johnson
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Jailed for Freedom
by Doris Stevens
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The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage
by Almroth Wright
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