George Eliot Dead – December 22, 1880
Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880; alternatively “Mary Ann” or “Marian”), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the...
View ArticleNever Heard of Susan B. Anthony (1880)
This strongly worded letter to the Pittsburgh Leader on March 21, 1880 was reproduced in the April 1880 issue of the National Citizen and Ballot Box suffrage newspaper published by Matilda Joslyn...
View ArticleWoman Suffrage and the Darwinian Theory (1878)
DEAR BALLOT BOX: Do you know that this interminable drudgery imposed on American mothers of petitioning—petitioning for the ballot—this humiliation of forever praying to their own sons to be allowed...
View ArticleWhat is Cruel Treatment? (1878)
CRUEL WORDS AS MUCH A GROUND FOR DIVORCE AS PHYSICAL INJURIES. Judge Sedgwick, of New York, has filed in a divorce suit an opinion that is novel as well as important to wives. Cruel and inhuman...
View ArticleWoman Past and Present (1880)
From National Citizen and Ballot Box for April 1880: CARLOTTA GUILLARD, was the first French woman who followed printing for a business. She carried on this trade from 1506 to 1567, a period of sixty...
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