Women's History Links
Please send suggestions for additional links to uuwhs@uuwhs.org
-- thank you.
Our appreciation to Jone Johnson Lewis who located and researched a number of these sites.
Researching Historic UU Women
Canadian Unitarian Universalist Women's History This comprehensive site includes information about historic women, and a number or ways to be involved in the preservation of UU Canadian Women' History. http://www.canuuwomenhistory.ca/
Women in American Religious History http://www.hds.harvard.edu/library/research/guides/american_women/
Women with Liberal Religious Connections http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Garden/1101/uuwomenl.html
Universalist Faith http://www.athens.net/%7Ewells/indexeu.htm
Unitarian Universalist Historical Society http://www.uua.org/uuhs/
UUs on Postage Stamps http://home1.gte.net/biblogic/cvuustam.html
Famous Unitarian Universalists http://www.jjnet.com/famousuus/
Writing UU Women Back into History http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Garden/1101/history.html
Worcester Women's History Project http://www.assumption.edu/HTML/academic/history/WWHP/front.html
Transcendentalist Women part I and II http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa031599.htm http://womenshistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa032299.htm
Harvard Divinity School Guide to Women's Studies http://www.hds.harvard.edu/library/internet/womens.html
A Unitarian Universalist Reading List (General UU background) http://www.hds.harvard.edu/library/guides/uure.html
Women's History and Religion http://womenshistory.about.com/msubrel.htm
Researching Historic Women
Women's History http://womenshistory.about.com/
Women Reformers http://www.writepage.com/others/unknown5.htm http://womenshistory.about.com/education/womenshistory/msubreform.htm
National Women's Hall of Fame http://www.greatwomen.org
Academic Information on Women's History http://academicinfo.net/uswomen.html
A Research Guide to American Women's History http://frank.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html
A History of Women in America http://www.fayettenam.com/history/ http://women.eb.com/women/
Women's Work in the 19th Century http://pigseye.kennesaw.edu/~ccaldwel/victoria.htm
Women and Social Movemements in the US 1830-1930 http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
Biography Collections http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/books.html
Researching Individual Women
In addition to the sites below, articles on the following women can be found in the Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography:
Abigail Adams, Hannah Adams, Louisa May Alcott, Harriot Stanton Blatch, Olympia Brown, Florence Buck, Celia Burleigh, Augusta Chapin, Maria Weston Chapman and the Weston sisters, Lydia Maria Child, Maria Cook, Deborah Davis, Abigail Eliot, Sallie Ellis, Margaret Fuller, Caroline Gilman, Elizabeth Hoar, Edith Holden, Mary Austin Holley, Julia Ward Howe, Lydia Jenkins, Mary Livermore, Harriet Martineau, Charlotte Masaryk, the Peabody Sisters, Sylvia Plath, Olive Higgins Prouty, Sarah Ripley, Lady Frances Russell, Mary Augusta Safford, May Sarton, Caroline Severance, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Frances Wayland Wood. More women's biographies are in preparation.
Louisa May Alcott
http://dir.yahoo.com/Arts/Humanities/Literature/Genres /Literary_Fiction/Authors/Alcott__Louisa_May__1832_1888_/
http://www.louisamayalcott.org
http://www.nps.gov/mima
Susan B. Anthony (women's rights activist) http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blanthony.htm
Anna Laetitia Barbauld http://duke.usask.ca/~vargo/barbauld/welcome.html
Clara Barton http://www.nps.gov/clba
Antoinette Brown Blackwell (first ordained woman minister) http://www.cc.oberlin.edu/%7EEOG/OYTT%2Dimages/NettyBlackwell.html http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/black-al.html http://infoplease.kids.lycos.com/ce5/CE006294.html
Elizabeth Blackwell http://www.greatwomen.org/blkwele.htm http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tovo/auto/fall/research/dempsey.html http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~tovo/auto/fall/research/nguyen.html http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/BLACKWELL.html
Olympia Brown (early ordained woman minister) http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbiobrownolympia.htm http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/brown.htm
Prudence Crandall http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/crandall.html
Dorothea Dix (reformer) http://www.greatamericanwomen.com/dix.htm
Fannie Farmer (cook and author) http://womenshistory.about.com/library/bio/blbiofarmerf.htm
Eliza Lee Cabot Follen http://www.unl.edu/legacy/19cwww/books/elibe/follen/home.htm
Margaret Fuller (author) http://www.arh.eku.edu/eng/KOPACZ/Fuller.htm http://womenshistory.about.com/library/qu/blqufull.htm
Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford http://home.att.net/~womensrights/hanaford_bio.htm
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper http://library.thinkquest.org/3337/harper.html http://education.ucdavis.edu/new/stc/lesson/socstud/railroad/FranBio.htm http://inform.umd.edu/Pictures/WomensStudies/PictureGallery/harper.html
Julia Ward Howe http://www3.edgenet.net/fcarpenter/howe.html http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/howe.html http://www.greatwomen.org/howe.htm
Harriet Martineau (English feminist) http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wmartineau.htm
Maria Mitchell http://www.mmo.org
Judith Sargent Murray (philosopher, religious leader, playwright) http://www.jjsbooks.com/books/murrayjs.htm http://www.hurdsmith.com/judith/ http://home1.gte.net/biblogic/cvuumurr.html http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/murrayjs.htm
The Sargent House Museum was built for Judith Sargent Murray and has been open as a historic house museum since 1917. The museum's collections contain many objects and documents which relate to Murray. The web site can be found at sargenthouse.org.
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody (educator) http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/peabody.html
Lucy Stone (feminist) http://womenshistory.about.com/education/womenshistory/msubstone.htm
UU Women's Groups
Association of Universalist Women: Revitalizing UU Women's Groups http://www.unitarian.org/auw/
Dramatic Productions
Nancy Engel Productions, Famous Women in History: including Susan B. Anthony and Clara Barton http://nancyengel.home.mindspring.com/famouswomen.html
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