Bibliography of Women's History

Douglas, Elinor Thompson, "Growing Up at Brookwood," Delaware History 18(1978-79): 267-274

Downs, Dorothy Gardener, 101 Years of Volunteerism: Delaware State Federation of Women’s Clubs (Smyrna: 1990)

Hancock, Harold B., "Civil War Diaries of Anna M. Ferris," Delaware History 9(1960-61): 221-264

Hancock, Harold B., "Mary Ann Shadd: Negro Editor, Educator and Lawyer," Delaware History 15(1972-73): 187-194

Hewlett, Richard Greening, Jessie Ball du Pont (Gainesville: 1992)                           Top of page

Higgins, Anthony, ed., "Mary Wilson Thompson Memoir," Delaware History 18(1978-79): 43-62, 126-152, 194-218, 238-266

Hoffecker, Carol E., "Delaware’s Woman Suffrage Campaign," Delaware History 20(1982-83): 149-167

Hoffecker, Carol E., Beneath Thy Guiding Hand: A History of Women at the University of Delaware (Newark: 1994)

Hull, Gloria T., "Alice Dunbar-Nelson: Delaware Writer and Woman of Affairs," Delaware History 17(1976-77): 87-103

Hull, Gloria T., ed., Give Us Each Day: The Diary of Alice Dunbar-Nelson (New York: 1984)

Jennings, Leland, "The Women of Fort Delaware" History Paper, University of Delaware, 1996 (Available at the Historical Society of Delaware)

Johnson, Clifton H. "Mary Ann Shadd: A Crusader for the Freedom of Man" in The Crisis Vol. 78, No. 3. (Available in pamphlet collection, Historical Society of Delaware)

A Legacy from Delaware Women (Wilmington: 1987)

Low, Betty Bright and Jacqueline Hinsley, Sophie du Pont: A Young Lady in America, Sketches, Diaries and Letters (New York: 1987)

Mabel Vernon: Speaker for Suffrage and Petitioner for Peace (University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office, 1976). (Available at the Historical Society of Delaware)

McCurday, Mary Burton, "Glimpse of Boarding School Education for Girls in Newark, Delaware in 1838 and 1839, " Delaware History 17(1976-77): 147-153

McNinch, Marjorie, "Elizabeth Gilpin’s Journal of 1830," Delaware History 20(1982-83): 223-255

Robinson, Winifred J., "History of the Women’s College of the University of Delaware, 1914-1938," Delaware Notes, 1947

"Soldier’s Story: Ruth Dorsman, Army Nurse Corps," Delaware History, 26(1994-95): 203-204

Stanislow, Gail, "Domestic Feminism in Wilmington: The New Century Club, 1889-1917, Delaware History, 22(1986-87): 158-185

Taggart, Robert J., "Etta J. Wilson (1883-1971): A Delaware Reformer, Delaware History 24(1990-91): 33-52

The Suffragist, 1913-1930, publication of the Congressional Union/National Woman’s Party then published under title of Equal Rights by the National Woman’s Party, 1931-1944 (Available at the Historical Society of Delaware)

Vaux, Trina, Guide to Women’s History Resources in the Delaware Valley Area (Philadelphia: 1983)

Ward, Mary Sam, ed., Delaware Women Remembered (Wilmington: 1977)             Top of Page

Weatherford, Doris, American Women’s History (New York: 1994)

Weatherford, Doris, American Women’s History: An A to Z of People, Organizations, Issues and Events (New York: 1994)

Wilson, E. Emerson, "Phoebe George Bradford Diaries," Delaware History 16(1974-75): 1-21, 132-151, 244-268, 337-357

"Women in Delaware: a documented profile." University of Delaware, Department of Public Instruction and the College of Human Resources (Newark: 1986)

Women in War Work, published by "Ladies Home Journal," 1943

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