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	Publications About Boston Women: A Selected List Books Alcott, Louisa May. Hospital Sketches. Bessie Z. Jones, ed., Harvard University Press, 1960. Blanchard, Paula. Margaret Fuller: From Transcendentalism to Revolution. Addison-Wesley, 1987. Cantarow, Ellen. Moving the Mountain: Women Working for Social Change [Florence Luscomb]. Feminist Press, 1980. Clifford, Deborah. Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Biography of Julia Ward Howe. Little, Brown, 1979. Cott, Nancy F. The Bonds of Womanhood: Woman’s Sphere in New England, 1780-1835. Yale University Press, 1977. Craft, Ellen and William. Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/CraThou.html Crawford, Deborah. Four Women in a Violent Time: Anne Hutchinson, Mary Dyer.... Crown, 1970. Cromwell, Adelaide M. The Other Brahmins: Boston’s Black Upper Class, 1750-1950. University of Arkansas Press, 1994. Davidson, Margaret. Helen Keller’s Teacher [Annie Sullivan]. Scholastic, 1996. Drachman, Virgina B. Hospital with a Heart: Women Doctors and the Paradox of Separatism and the New England Hospital, 1862-1969. Cornell University Press, 1984. Dublin, Thomas. Transforming Women’s Work: New England Lives in the American Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1994. Dykeman, Therese Boos. American Women Philosophers, 1650-1930: Six Exemplary Thinkers [Mercy Otis Warren, Judith Sargent Murray, Ednah Dow Cheney]. Edwin Mellon Press, 1993. Elbert, Sarah. A Hunger for Home: Louisa May Alcott’s Place in American Culture. Rutgers University Press, 1987. Fairbanks, Henry G. Louise Imogen Guiney: Laureate of the Lost. Magi Books, 1972. Faxon, Alicia and Moore, Sylvia, eds. Pilgrims and Pioneers: New England Women in the Arts [Charlotte Cushman, Harriet Hosmer, Edmonia Lewis, Anne Whitney]. Midmarch Arts Press, 1987. Freedman, Florence B. Two Tickets to Freedom: The True Story of Ellen and William Craft, Fugitive Slaves. B. Bedrick, 1971. Gibran, Jean and Kahlil. Kahlil Gibran, His Life and World [Back Bay women]. Interlink, rev. ed. 1993. Gill, Gillian. Mary Baker Eddy. Perseus Books, 1998. Goldfarb, Hilliard T. The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: A Companion Guide and History. Yale University Press, 1995. Gollaher, David L. Voice for the Mad: The Life of Dorothea Dix. Free Press, 1995. Graham, Shirley. The Story of Phillis Wheatley. Julian Messner, 1949. Hansen, Debra Gold. Strained Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society. University of Massachusetts Press, 1993. Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks. Righteous Discontent: The Women’s Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920. Harvard University Press, 1993. Kaufman, Polly Welts. Boston Women and City School Politics, 1872-1905. Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994. Kerr, Andrea Moore. Lucy Stone: Speaking Out for Equality. Rutgers University Press, 1992. Lerner, Gerda. The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Women’s Rights and Abolition. Schocken Books, 1967. Matson, Molly, ed. An Independent Woman: The Autobiogrtaphy of Edith Guerrier. University of Massachusetts Press, 1992. Merrill, Marlene Deahl, ed. Growing Up in Boston’s Gilded Age: The Journal of Alice Stone Blackwell, 1872-1874. Yale University Press, 1990. Norwood, Stephen H. Labor’s Flaming Youth: Telephone Operators and Worker Militancy, 1878-1923. University of Illinois Press, 1990. Nylander, Jane C. Our Own Snug Fireside: Images of the New England Home. Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Pease, Jane L. and Wiliam H. Pease. Ladies, Women and Wenches: Choice and Constraint in Antebellum Charleston and Boston. University of North Carolina, 1990. Porter, Susan, ed. Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family, and Social Change in Nineteenth Century Massachusetts. [Julia Harrington Duff, Emily Greene Balch, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin] University of Massachusetts Press, 1996. Richardson, Marilyn, ed. Maria W. Stewart, America’s First Black Woman Political Writer. Indiana University Press, 1987. Richmond, Merle. Phillis Wheatley: Poet. Chelsea House, 1988. Roman, Judith A. Annie Adams Fields: The Spirit of Charles Street. Indiana University Press, 1990. Ronda, Bruce. Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: A Reformer On Her Own Terms. Harvard Univeristy Press, 1999. Smith, Bonnie Hurd. From Gloucester to Philadelphia in 1790: Excerpts from the Letters of Judith Sargent Murray. Curious Traveller Press and the Judith Sargent Murray Society, 1998. Smith, Bonnie Hurd. Salem Women’s Heritage Trail. Salem Chamber of Commerce, 2000. Van Doren, Carl. Jane Mecom: Benjamin Franklin’s Favorite Sister. Augustus M. Kelly, 1973. Williams, Selma R. Divine Rebel: The Life of Anne Hutchinson. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981. Wilson, Susan. Boston Sites and Insights. Beacon Press, 1994. Wilson, Susan. Garden of Memories: A Guide to Historic Forest Hills. Forest Hills Educational Trust, 1998. Articles Dubrow, Gail Lee. “Claiming Public Space for Women’s History in Boston: A Proposal for Preservation, Public Art, and Public Historical Interpretation.” Frontiers 13 (1992): 111-147. Emerson, Rev. Dorothy May. “Boston Women Who Worked for Racial Justice: Eliza Lee Cabot Follen, Lydia Maria Francis Child, Maria Weston Chapman, Mary Ashton Rice Livermore, Maria Louise Baldwin, Florida Ruffin Ridley. Publication of the Unitarian Universalist Women’s Heritage Society (June, 1993). Gamber, Wendy. “A Precarious Independence: Milliners and Dressmakers in Boston, 1860-1890.” Journal of Women’s History (Spring 1992): 60-87. Spencer-Wood, Suzanne M. “Feminist Historical Archaeology and the Transformation of American Culture by Domestic Reform Movements, 1840 1925." Historical Archaeology and the Study of American Culture, Lu Ann De Cunszo and Bernard L. Herman, eds. University of Tennessee Press, 1996. Reference Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. Vol. 1-3: Edward T. and Janet James, eds., Harvard University Press, 1971. Vol. 4: Barbara Sicherman and Carol Hurd Green, eds., Harvard University Press, 1980. Curricula Writing Women In Students learn about the diverse contributions of lesser-known local and national women who have helped shape US and world history. (grades 3-5) To download a copy of Writing Women In, a distance learning project highlighting many Boston-area women, please visit Inquirylearn at: http://www.inquirylearn.com (Click on K-12 Curriculum and then click on K-12 Curriculum samples.) ©2002 Writing Women In, Paula Sincero and Christine Woyshner Also published by the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail Contact Mary Smoyer for availability and ordering information. Biographies of Twenty Notable Boston Women A Curriculum Resource. Mary Smoyer, ed. 1993. Walk Her Way: A Boston Women’s Heritage Trail in the Neighborhood of Charlestown, Massachusetts. 1997. The South End Women’s Heritage Trail. 1994. Voyages of Women: A Walk through the Neighborhood of Roxbury in Boston. 1995. Let Me Tell You Her Story: A Walk Through History with the Women of Jamaica Plain. 1992.