Project Texts

Scroll through images of some of the rare books used for our class research. Text images are used with the permission of the Archives and Research Collections Centre, Western University

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects

Mary Wollstonecraft

ARCC Call Number: HQ1596 .G6

Wollstonecraft, Mary, and Joseph Johnson. 1792. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman : With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. 2d ed. London: Printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s Church Yard.

Catalogue Notes: “Although note on page 452 “End of the first volume” suggests that additional volumes were to follow, no more were ever published.”

Wonder Woman

DC Comics

Catalogue Notes: An anniversary edition published in 1973

Fanaticism: Its Source and Influence: Illustrated by the Simple Narrative of Isabella, in the Case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c.: a Reply to W.L. Stone with Descriptive Portraits of All the Parties, While at Sing-Sing and at Third Street, Containing the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth

Gilbert Vale

ARCC Call Number: BR1718.M3 S85 1835

History of Woman Sufferage

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage & Ida Husted Harper

ARCC Call Number: JK1896 .S8

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. (Susan Brownell) Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage, and Ida Husted Harper. 1881. History of Woman Suffrage. New York: Fowler & Wells.

Catalogue Notes: “Vol. 1 is a presentation copy, inscribed to Mrs. Louise Southworth, by Susan B. Anthony.”

Constitutional Equality a Right of a Woman or, a Consideration of the Various Relations which she Sustains as a Necessary Part of the Body of Society and Humanity

Tennessee Clafin

ARCC Call Number: K1901 .C7

Cook. Tennessee Claflin. 1976. Constitutional Equality, a Right of Woman or, A Consideration of the Various Relations Which She Sustains as a Necessary Part of the Body of Society and Humanity … New York: Woodhull, Clafin.

Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color: to Which is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry

Abigail Mott

ARCC Call Number: E185.96 .M8 1839

Mott, Abigail (Field). 1839. Biographical Sketches and Interesting Anecdotes of Persons of Color : To Which Is Added, a Selection of Pieces in Poetry. New York: M. Day, Printer.

Poems Upon Several Occasions. With a, Voyage to the Island of Love

Aphra Behn 

ARCC Call Number: PR3317 .P64 1684

Behn, Aphra. 1684. Poems upon Several Occasions. With a, Voyage to the Island of Love. London: Printed for R. Tonson and J. Tonson.

Woman, Her Character, Culture and Calling : a Full Discussion of Woman’s Work in the Home, the School, the Church and the Social Circle; with an Account of Her Successful Labors in Moral and Social Reform, Her Heroic Work for God and Humanity in the Mission Field, Her Success as a Wage-Earner and in Fighting Life’s Battle Alone; with Chapters on All Departments of Woman’s Training and Culture, Her Claims to the Higher Education, and the Best Methods to Be Pursued Therin

Benjamin Fish Austin & Frances E. Willard

ARCC Call Number: HQ1399.A94 1890