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An Individualist Feminist Compendium

With Emphasis upon 19th Century America

Rediscovering Feminism's Lost Tradition

This site is devoted to making the works of early Individualist Feminists available for research and enjoyment. To learn more about the tradition of Individualist Feminism, please read a bibliography of and an introduction to individualist feminism, both on external sites. Click on the women listed below to begin the adventure of rediscovering this rich and neglected chapter of feminist history. Please be patient and revisit often -- the site is just beginning construction.

Most recently added (Jan. 17, 1999): Introduction to Schreiner's Woman and Labor.

List of Individualist Feminists on Site

  • Voltairine de Cleyre
  • Clara Dixon Davidson
  • Margaret Fuller
  • Angelina E. Grimke [Weld]
  • Sarah Grimke
  • Lillian Harman
  • Angela T. Heywood
  • Florence Finch Kelly
  • Dora Marsden
  • Lucretia Mott
  • Elizabeth Palmer Peabody
  • Olive Schreiner
  • Frances Wright

    • Voltairine de Cleyre

    For the best biographical information, please read Paul Avrich's An American Anarchist: The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1978.)
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    Clara Dixon Davidson

    Margaret Fuller

    Because Fuller's work is easily accessible elsewhere, links to other sites are provided rather than reprints.

    Angelina E. Grimke [Weld]

    For biographical information, please read Gerda Lerner's The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina: Rebels Against Slavery (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1967.)

    Sarah Grimke

    For biographical information, please read Gerda Lerner's The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimke.

    For biographical material both sisters on external links:

    Lillian Harman

    Angela T. Heywood

    Florence Finch Kelly

    Dora Marsden

    This information provided courtesy of the Egoist Archive. Hit BACK to return.
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    Lucretia Mott

  • Biographical information and a photo from the Quaker archives. Hit BACK to return.
  • Excerpts from Mott's London diary, 1840.
  • Bibliographical information, with suggested readings.
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    • Elizabeth Palmer Peabody

    Biographical material and suggested readings.
    Portal to material on Palmer. Hit BACK to return.
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    Olive Schreiner:

  • Her allegorical stories from Dreams (Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., undated)
  • Her freethought novel The Story of An African Farm, Preface or Table of Contents.
  • Her nonfiction book Woman and Labor, Table of Contents, Intro. [under construction]

    • For the best biographical information, please read S.C. Cronwright-Schreiner's The Life of Olive Schreiner (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1924.)
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    Frances Wright

    Biographical information, with suggested readings.
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    COMING SOON:

    Lucretia Mott's Lectures
    Olive Schreiner's Woman and Labor, chapters to be posted as completed.

    Links to other Individualist Feminist sites on the Web

    Links to Valuable Non-Individualist Feminists of interest.

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    Please tell me of any inaccuracies of dead links you encounter. Feedback is welcomed.

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