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Special Collections - Women's History: Home

Introduction

Special Collections collects works by women and about the political status and social conditions for women throughout history. This guide will provide you with a sampling of primary sources housed by Special Collections on the lives and roles of women in Gettysburg and around the world.

 

 

"...inward and outward freedom for Woman and for Man shall be acknowledged as a right, not yielded as a concession."

Fuller, Margaret - Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and kindred papers related to the sphere, condition and duties, of woman. Boston: John P. Jewett and Company, 1855, p.37

Special Collections (Rare Books) HQ1154 .O77 1855