Before they could vote: American women's autobiographical writing, 1819-1919

Introduction : Living in public / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson

An authentic statement of the case and conduct of Rose Butler, who was tried, convicted, and executed for the crime of arson (1819) / Rose Butler

A narrative of the life of Mrs. Mary Jemison (as told to James E. Seaver) (1824) / Mary Jemison

The life and religious experience of Jarena Lee (1836) / Jarena Lee

Selections from Journal of a residence on a Georgian plantation in 1838-1839 (1863) / Fanny Kemble

Transcription of speech given at the Akron Women's Rights Convention, from the Anti-slavery Bugle (June 21, 1851) / Sojourner Truth

Selections from "Youth," from Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli (1852) / Margaret Fuller

Testimony, given in Canada (1855) / Harriet Tubman

A brief narrative of the life of Mrs. Adele M. Jewel (1869) / Adele M. Jewel

Selections from her journals (1874/78) / M. Carey Thomas

The Yakima affair, from Life among the Piutes : their wrongs and claims (1883) / Sarah Winnemucca

An old woman and her recollections (as recorded by Thomas Savage) (1877) / Eulalia Pérez

Beginning to work, from A New England girlhood (1889) / Lucy Larcom

"Looking back on girlhood" (1892) / Sarah Orne Jewett

The Club movement among colored women of America (1900) / Fannie Barrier Williams

Sketches from The Atlantic monthly / Zitkala-Ša

Nurslings of the sky, from The land of little rain (1903) / Mary Hunter Austin

Mary MacLane meets the vampire on the isle of treacherous delights (1910) / Mary MacLane

The promised land, from The promised land (1912) / Mary Antin

Lives in The Independent and the question of race / Anonymous

How I made my first big flight abroad : my flight across the English Channel (1912) / Harriet Quimby

Autobiographical essays / Sui Sin Far

Selections from Madeleine, an autobiography (1919) / "Madeleine".