Articles about Women’s Clubs in “The Bostonian”

Diaz, Abby Morton. “Women’s Clubs.” The Bostonian II, no. 2 (May 1895): 179-183.
First in series of articles about the New England Women’s Club.

Diaz, Abby Morton. “Women’s Clubs.” The Bostonian II, no. 3 (June 1895): 288-292.
Second installment in a series of articles on the New England Women’s Club.

Diaz, Abby Morton. “Women’s Clubs.” The Bostonian II, no. 4 (July 1895): 383-386.
Thoughts inspired by a meeting of the New England Women’s Club of Boston.

Diaz, Abby Morton. “Women’s Clubs.” The Bostonian II, no. 5 (August 1895): 516-19.
On the occasion of a picnic of the Waltham Women’s Club on an Island in the Charles River and the discussions that took place.

Diaz, Abby Morton. “Their True Character.” The Bostonian III, no. 1 (October 1895): 59-63.
What the women’s clubs mean around the country, and in Boston.

Diaz, Abby Morton. “New England Woman’s Press Club.” The Bostonian III, no. 4 (January 1896): 367-73.

Diaz, Abby Morton. “The Early Days of the New England Woman’s Club.” The Bostonian III, no. 5 (February 1896): 483-485.

Note: Abby Morton Diaz (1821-1904) was a teacher at the Brook Farm Community from 1843-1849, where her father had been one of the original trustees. She was also one of the founders of the Women’s Education and Industrial Union of Boston. The records of the New England Woman’s Club are kept at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.

Lucy Stone

Porter, Maria S. “Lucy Stone.” The Bostonian III, no. 1 (October 1895): 42-54.
A portrait of Lucy Stone, orator, abolitionist, and advocate for woman suffrage.

Websites

Boston Women’s Heritage Trail

Teaching With Documents: Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment (National Archives)
Links to many other valuable documents, including petitions and photographs, at the National Archives.

Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Women’s Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921 (Library of Congress)
The NAWSA Collection consists of 167 books, pamphlets and other artifacts documenting the suffrage campaign, including Harriet H. Robinson’s Massachusetts in the Women Suffrage Movement: A General, Political, Legal and Legislative History from 1774 to 1881. This book, published in 1881, includes an excellent 88-page appendix of primary documents such as legislation, convention reports, first-hand accounts, and more.

Alice Stone Blackwell, “Objections Answered,” 1915
A pamphlet published in response to Anti-Suffrage sentiments.

Voters Deny Massachusetts Women the Right to Vote: November 2nd, 1915. (Mass Moments)

Records of the New England Woman’s Club are kept at the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America.