Introduction
This bibliography is number 16 of the series WISCONSIN BIBLIOGRAPHIES IN WOMEN'S STUDIES published by the University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office, 430 Memorial Library, 728 State Street, Madison, WI 53706; 608-263-5754; email: the Women's Studies Librarian.
This bibliography updates and expands Wisconsin Women: A Bibliographic Checklist, compiled by Women's Studies Librarian Linda Parker in 1981. It is divided into three sections covering general works, selected sources on individual women, and archival resources. Dissertations and theses listed are available at the institution where they were submitted and sometimes may be borrowed through interlibrary loan or are accessible through Dissertations & Theses database from Proquest, where that database is available. Local historical societies and other organizations may also have issued calendars, exhibition brochures, and other commemorative publications on women from their areas. Local public libraries are a good source for these materials. Many of the websites included have biographical information derived from the print sources, but are listed for use by school children and others without easy access to the original material. For material specifically on the history of women at the University of Wisconsin, consult "History of Women at the University of Wisconsin" webpage, by Phyllis Holman Weisbard. "Wisconsin Women's History" incorporates with permission several citations from Wisconsin History: an Annotated Bibliography, by Barbara Dotts Paul and Justus F. Paul (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1999). See their work for additional material, including privately published memoirs.
We welcome suggestions of additional citations for a future update.
Phyllis Holman Weisbard, University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian.
General Works
Women's History in Wisconsin, web page from the Wisconsin Historical Society, links to original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources available online, about the history of the suffrage campaign in Wisconsin, and other topics. The Wisconsin Historical Images collection includes a section on Women subdivided by portraits, women in education, women at leisure/play, women at war, women in political or social movements, and women at work. The Dictionary of Wisconsin History includes brief biographies of several prominent Wisconsin women. There are also many articles about women among the Wisconsin Local History & Biography Articles, digitized versions of newspaper clippings maintained in scrapbooks at the Wisconsin Historical Society in the late 19th and the 20th centuries. It is not fulltext searchable, so it works best for searching for known individuals, locations and time spans.
The State of Wisconsin Collection of the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections includes many local history collections with material by and about women.
Search the entire State of Wisconsin Collection, or select a particular local area collection to search, and try searching for "woman," "women," etc.
Ader, Yvonne Anderson. "Women's Progress Through Education: A Study of Pioneer Milwaukee, 1835-1870. M.S. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1966.
Anderson, Greta. More Than Petticoats: Remarkable Wisconsin Women. Guilford, CT: TwoDot, 2004. Includes chapters on Queen Marinette, Eliza Chappell Porter, Cordelia A.P. Harvey, Margarethe Meyer Schurz, Belle Case La Follette, Harriet Bell Merrill, Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill, Elsa Upbricht, Edna Ferber, Mabel Watson Raimey, Golda Meir, and Mildred Fish-Harnack.
Anderson, Harry H. "The Women Who Helped Make Milwaukee Breweries Famous." Milwaukee History 4, 3/4 (1981): 66-78.
Nineteenth-century women members of the major beer businesses.
Anshus, Gail K. "A History of Five Women Philanthropists at Marquette University, 1881-1991." M.A. thesis, Marquette University, 1995.
Apple, Rima D. "The best job in the world." Wisconsin Academy Review 46, 3 (2000): 29-33.
Public health nurses helped overburdened mothers keep babies healthy in 1930s rural Wisconsin.
Apple, Rima D. "Educating Mothers: The Wisconsin Bureau of Maternal and Child Health." Women's History Review [Great Britain] 12, 4 (2003): 559-576.
On the work of public health nurses employed by the Bureau between the World Wars.
Apple, Rima D., project coordinator; Joyce E. Coleman, researcher. From Home Economics to Human Ecology: A One-Hundred Year History At the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Includes numerous biographies of women faculty members and student experiences in the School of Home Economics. See also the online exhibit connected with the project, and the fulltext book The Challenge of Constantly Changing Times: From Home Economics to Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin--Madison 1903-2003 , also by Rima Apple. Digitized by University of Wisconsin Digital Collections.
Apple, Rima D. "'Much Instruction Needed Here': The Work of Nurses in Rural Wisconsin During the Depression," Nursing History Review 15 (2007): 95-111.
On a Demonstration Nurse Program in which the Wisconsin Bureau of Maternal and Child Health used federal funds to hire public health nurses to work in rural areas of the state to demonstrate the efficacy of public health nurses.
Archdiocese of Milwaukee. History of the Office for Women: http://www.archmil.org/resources/userfiles/OFW-history.htm.
See also A Grassroots Feminist Challenge to the Catholic Church: A Social-Theological History of the Women's Commission, The Archdiocese of Milwaukee, 1982-1992" (available through the Office for Women).
Bataille, Gretchen M., ed. Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland, 1993.
Six twentieth century women from Wisconsin are included: Ada Deer, Josette Juneau, Laura Cornelius Kellogg, Mountain Wolf Woman, Ferial Deer Skye, and Roberta Hill Whitman.
Bauer-King, Nancy, Rychie Breidenstein, and Diane Nichols. How Shall We Be Known: Voices of Women in Ministry in the Wisconsin United Methodist Tradition. Oconto: Three Sisters Press, 1996.
Bellais, Leslie. "No Idle Hands: A Milwaukee WPA Handicraft Project," Wisconsin Magazine of History 84, 2 (2000-01): 48-56.
The mostly female workforce, over half of whom were African American, learned work skills while employed making handicrafts.
Bigony, Beatrice A. Women At Stout: a Centennial Retrospective. Menomonie: University of Wisconsin at Stout Women's Studies Committee, 1991.
Boos, Eric .J. "Strange Brew: the Wisconsin Brewing Industry's Opposition to Prohibition, Women's Suffrage and the Age of Consent Laws. Southern California Review of Law and Women's Studies 12, 1 (Fall 2002): 3-29
Borgia, M. Francis. He Sent Two: The Story of the Beginning of the School Sisters of St. Francis. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co., 1965.
Boright, Heather, et al. Women's Work : Early Wisconsin Women Artists, West Bend Art Museum, October 3-November 11, 2001. West Bend, Wis. : The Museum, c2001
Borst, Charlotte G. "The Training and Practice of Midwives: a Wisconsin Study." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 62, 4 (1988): 606-627.
Midwives came to their occupation from a variety of backgrounds in nineteenth-century Wisconsin, but their numbers declined in the early twentieth as they were increasingly subordinated to obstetricians.
Borst, Charlotte G. "Wisconsin's Midwives as Working Women: Immigrant Midwives and the Limits of a Traditional Occupation, 1870-1920." Journal of American Ethnic History 8 (Spring 1989): 24-59.
Bridges, Judith. "Indian Women: Strength and Spirit." Wisconsin Woman 1, 9 (December 1987): 56-58.
Focuses on some Wisconsin Indian women, both contemporary and historical.
Brown, Victoria. The Uncommon Lives of Common Women: the Missing Half of Wisconsin History. Madison: Wisconsin Feminists Project Fund, 1975.
Reprinted by the Wisconsin Women's Network (2005?) and available at no charge ($5.00 mailing fee). See description on the Wisconsin Women's Network's website, along with book excerpts about Electa Quinney Mariette Huntly Snell, and on coeducation at the University of Wisconsin.
Buenker, John D. "The politics of mutual frustration: Socialists and suffragists in New York and Wisconsin ." In: Flawed Liberation: Socialism and Feminism, ed. by Sally M. Miller. (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981): 113-44.
Bunkers, Suzanne L. "'Faithful Friend': Nineteenth-Century Midwestern American Women's Unpublished Diaries." Women's Studies International Forum 10, 1 (1987): 7-17. See also her "Diaries: Public and Private Records of Women's Lives." Legacy 7, 2 (1990): 17-26.
Discusses methodology of studying unpublished diaries housed in historical archives in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin.
Burt, Elizabeth V."Conflicts of Interest: Covering Reform in the Wisconsin Press, 1910-1920," Journalism History 2000 26, 3: 94-107.
Coverage of the suffrage movement in three Wisconsin newspapers of the decade.
Burt, Elizabeth V. "Dissent and Control in a Woman Suffrage Periodical: 30 Years of the Wisconsin Citizen." American Journalism 16, 2 (Spring 1999): 39-61.
Burt, Elizabeth V. " The Wisconsin Press and Woman Suffrage, 1911-1919: An Analysis of Factors Affecting Coverage by Ten Diverse Newspapers" Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 73, 3 (1996): 620-634.
Examines the coverage of suffrage events in mainstream Wisconsin newspapers of the period.
Butler, Anna B.; Bascom, Emma C.; Kerr, Katharine F., editors. Centennial Records of the Women of Wisconsin. Madison: Atwood & Culver, 1876.
Calmes, S.H. "Women in the First Academic Department of Anesthesiology," International Congress Series 1242 (December 2002): 263-267.
At the University of Wisconsin.
Canaday, Margot. "'We Say What We Think:' Rural Radio, Politics, and Domesticity in Dane County, Wisconsin, 1937-1945." Women's Studies 29 (2000): 793-826.
Chronicles a radio program on WIBA, Madison run by women.
Cannon, A. Peter. Wisconsin Women Legislators : a Historical List. Madison: Legislative Reference Bureau, (issued biennially).
Clark, James. "Wisconsin Women Fight For Suffrage." Chronicles of Wisconsin 12 (1956). Published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Clausen, Jean. "Mother is Back in College." Wisconsin Alumnus 66, no. 10 (Aug./Sept. 1965): 8-11. (Click on the article from the table of contents.)
Cleary, Catherine B. "Married Women's Property Rights in Wisconsin, 1846-1872." Wisconsin Magazine of History 78, 2 (1994/95): 110-137.
Married women did not have the right to own property until 1850 or to control their earnings until 1872.
Cleary, Catherine B. "Wisconsin Women Become Bankers in the Twentieth Century." Wisconsin Banker, December 1999: 4,8,10.
Collum, Maggie and Madelyn Kennedy. "Green Bay's Yankee Daughters." Voyageur: Northeast Wisconsin's Historical Review 11, 2 (1995): 21-28.
Describes seven women who founded organizations in Green Bay at the end of the nineteenth/beginning of the twentieth centuries.
Cooper, Signe. Wisconsin Nursing Pioneers. Madison: University of Wisconsin, Extension Division, 1968.
Cornwell, Ethel K. 'For God and Home and Every Land:' The Story of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Wisconsin, 1874-1974. Milwaukee: Woman's Christian Temperance of Wisconsin, 1975.
Costello, Cynthia B. "'We're Worth It!' Work, Culture and Conflict at the Wisconsin Education Association Insurance Trust." Feminist Studies 11, 3 (1985): 497-518; and We're Worth it! : Women and Collective Action in the Insurance Workplace. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991.
Strike of women clerical workers in 1979 and its aftermath.
Cox, Elizabeth M. Women State and Territorial Legislators, 1895-1995. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996. The section "Wisconsin (1925-1995):" 317-320.
Croft, Mary K., et al. Women of Vision: Reflections on Notable Women of Portage County. Stevens Point, WI : Epitaph Press, 1999.
Crane, Virginia Glenn. "'The Very Pictures of Anarchy:' Women in the Oshkosh Woodworkers' Strike of 1898," Wisconsin Magazine of History 2001 84, 3: 44-59
Crust, Anita Waltrip. A History of the Wisconsin Division of the American Association of University Women, 1921-1961. (40 p.)
Daniels, Adrienne Edith Hacker. "A Distant Voice of Suffrage: Amos P. Wilder and Women's Rights." Wisconsin Academy Review 41, 4 (Fall 1995): 4-7.
Describes a pro-suffrage speech given by Wilder in Madison in 1895.
De Luca, Sara. Dancing the Cows Home: A Wisconsin Girlhood. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1996.
Reminiscences of a Polk County farm in the 1950s.
Deacon, Florence Jean. "Handmaids or Autonomous Women: the Charitable Activities, Institution Building and Communal Relationships of Catholic Sisters in Nineteenth Century Wisconsin." Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989.
Deeringer, Susan Curtis. "Dressmaking as an Occupation for Women in Plymouth, Wisconsin, 1890-1920." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983.
Denial, Catherine Jane. "Wisconsin Women and the Law, 1820-1848." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1996.
Dexheimer, Florence Chambers. Daughters of the American Revolution: Sketches of Wisconsin Pioneer Women. Fort Atkinson: W.D. Hoard & Sons, 1925. Available at http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/Contents/Pioneer.html in the Wisconsin Electronic Reader.
Dombeck, J.M. "The Women's Coalition of Milwaukee, 1972-1987: Feminist Activism at the Local Level." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1987.
Dreamers and Doers, Women of Northeast Wisconsin. Green Bay, WI: American Association of University Women, Green Bay Area Branch; distributed by the Brown County Historical Society, 1994.
Celebrates the lives of historical and contemporary women in northeast Wisconsin. Excerpts in Voyageur: Northeast Wisconsin's Historical Review 21, 2 (2005): 56-59 focuses on Native American women: Menominee-French Marinette Chevallier Farnsworth (1784-1865), Stockbridge-Munsee Electa Quinney (d. 1885), Mohawk Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill (1876-1952), and Oneida Josephine Hill Webster (1883-1978). One white woman, Juliette Magill Kinzie (1806-70), who wrote about her experiences at Fort Winnebago is also included in the article.
Engelmann, Ruth. Leaf House: Days of Remembering, a Memoir. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Reminiscences of a Finnish American settlement in northern Wisconsin during the 1920s and 1930s.
Ernst, Kathleen. "Common Courage: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier." Wisconsin Woman 3, 11 (March 1990): 21-22.
Ernst, Kathleen. "Legendary Wisconsin Women." Wisconsin Woman (March 1989): 43-46.
Illustrated article about Rosaline Peck, Cordelia Harvey, Olympia Brown, Frances Willard, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Mary Spellman, Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Golda Meir.
Fairbanks, Carol; Sundberg, Sara Brooks. Farm Women on the Prairie Frontier: a Sourcebook for Canada and the United States. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1983.
Index includes 8 citations to material on Wisconsin farm women.
Fenster, Valmai K. Out of the Stacks: Notable Wisconsin Women Librarians. Madison: Wisconsin Women Library Workers, 1985.
Fiorenza, Mary Elizabeth. "Midwifery and the Law in Illinois and Wisconsin, 1877-1917." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1985.
Fiorenza, Mary Elizabeth and Michael Edmonds. Women's History Resources at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. (5th ed. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1997.
Detailed guide to locating and using material in the Library, Archives, and other branches of the Society.
"First Assemblywomen Elected to State Legislature in 1924." Wisconsin Then and Now 25, 9 (April 1979): 2-3, 6.
Follet, Joyce Clark. "Gender and Community: Kenosha, Wisconsin, 1835-1913." Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1991.
Foley, Betsy. Catholic Woman's Club: 100 years, 1900-2000: Pioneers in Community Giving. Green Bay, WI: Catholic Woman's Club, 2000.
History of the club in Green Bay.
Foley, Betsy. "The Women in Rufus Kellogg's Life," Voyageur: Northeast Wisconsin's Historical Review 19, 1 (2002): 48-55, 57-59.
Women in the family of a Green Bay banker.
Gale, Zona. "What Women Won in Wisconsin." Nation 115, 2981 (August 23, 1922): 184-185.
Geurink, Jean. "The Rural Isolation Myth: Historical Changes in the Roles of Wisconsin Farm Women." Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006.
Gilpatrick, Kristin. Famous Wisconsin Film Stars. Oregon, WI: Badger Books, 2002.
Discusses the Wisconsin ties of Agnes Moorehead, Carole Landis, Colleen Dewhurst, Tyne Daly, Gena Rowlands, Carlotte Rae, Ellen Corby, and numerous male actors.
Gilson, Susan Ring. "The New Woman in Wisconsin: Female Reformers of the Progressive Era." M.S. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1976.
Gjerde, Jon and McCants, Anne. "Individual Life Changes, 1850-1910: A Norwegian-American Example." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 30, 3 (1999): 377-405.
Studies the effects of gender, birth order, and distance from parents on the marital pattern of children in Norwegian American families during the time period. Girls left home earlier than boys. Older sons and daughters were more likely to marry, as were those who moved away.
Gouveia, Grace Mary. "'We Also Serve:' American Indians Women's Role in World War II." Michigan Historical Review 20, 2 (1994): 153-182.
Discusses Menominee women in Wisconsin as well as Lakota Sioux in South Dakota. The Menominee women worked during the War in a mill owned by the tribe and in lumber camps.
Grant, Marilyn. "The 1912 Suffrage Referendum: an Exercise in Political Action." Wisconsin Magazine of History 64 (1980/81): 107-118.
Discusses both the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association, headed by Reverend Olympia Brown, and the Political Equality League, presided over by Ada James.
Graves, Lawrence L. "The Wisconsin Suffrage Movement, 1846-1920." Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1954.
Haegele, Mary. Those Wonderful Women of Wisconsin: a Tribute to Kewaunee County Women. Kewaunee, Wis. : Abacus Associates, 1999.
Hagen, Monys Ann. "Norwegian Pioneer Women: Ethnicity on the Wisconsin Agricultural Frontier." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984.
Hague, Amy. "Give Us a Little Time to Find Our Places: University of Wisconsin Alumnae, Classes 1875-1900." M.A. Thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983.
Hanousek, M. Eunice. New Assisi: The First Hundred Years of the Sisters of St. Francis of Assisi, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1849-1949. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co., 1948.
Hass, Paul H. "Sin in Wisconsin: the Teasdale Vice Committee of 1913." Wisconsin Magazine of History 49 (1966): 138-151.
Hendrickson, Mark L. "Pioneer Newspaperwomen of Wisconsin." Wisconsin Academy Review 42, 4 (Fall 1996): 15-20.
Discusses Emma Veeder (Janesville Signal), Susa Humes Sturtevant (Oshkosh Northwestern), Ada Markham (Independence News-Wave), and Elaine Stiles (The Kingston Spy), all active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Henke, Alice M. Branch Amid the Pines: Early Years of the Congregation of the Sisters, Servants of Mary, Ladysmith, Wisconsin, 1912-1921. Ladysmith: Sisters, Servants of Mary, 1983.
Her Own Words: Dane County Wisconsin Pioneer Women's Diaries (video).Writer and producer Jocelyn Riley. Madison: 1986 (video)
Photographs and words based on the diaries and personal narratives of five pioneer women who lived in or traveled through Dane County in the 1830s-1850s. The women: Sarah Hobbins, Juliette Kinzie, Elisabeth Koren, Rosalind Peck and Linka Preus.
Herman, Kali. Women in Particular: an Index to American Women. Phoenix: Oryx, 1984.
Forty-four women are listed under "Wisconsin" in the geographical index to Women in Particular. Nineteenth century women include Mary Mortimer, founder of Milwaukee Female College, suffragist and peace advocate Jessie Annette Hooper, physician Almah J. Frisby, journalist Stella A. Gaines Fifield, and children's author Rebecca Perley Reed.
Hinding, Andrea. Women's History Sources: a Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States. New York: Bowker, 1979 (2 v.)
Wisconsin entries are in volume 1, pp. 1061-1088.
Hoberg, Georgia et al. The Impact of Her Spirit. River Falls: Wisconsin Extension Homemakers Council, 1989.
Hochstein, Irma. Progressive Primer. Madison: Wisconsin Women's Progressive Association, 1922.
Handbook written for newly enfranchised women.
Hoeveler, Diane Long. Milwaukee Women Yesterday. Milwaukee: University of Wisconsin Board of Regents, 1979.
Hurn, Ethel Alice. Wisconsin Women in the War Between the States. Wisconsin History Commission, 1911. Digitized by the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Jacob, Kathryn Allamong. "The Mosher Report." American Heritage 32, 4 (1981): 56-64.
On a study of sexual habits of women at Stanford and the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the 1890s.
Jamakaya. Like Our Sisters Before Us: Women of Wisconsin Labor. Milwaukee: Wisconsin Labor History Society, 1998.
Based on interviews conducted for the Women of Wisconsin Labor Oral History Project. Interviews were with Evelyn Donner Day, Alice Holz, Evelyn Gotzion, Catherine Conroy, Nellie Wilson, Doris Thom, Lee Schmelling, Helen Hensler, Joanne Bruch, and Florence Simons.
Janik, Erika. "Good Morning, Homemakers!" Wisconsin Magazine of History 90, 1 (2006-2007): 4-15.
On a program that aired on WHA, the University of Wisconsin radio station, starting in 1926, through 1965, when long-time host Aline Hazard retired and the show was renamed "Accent on Living."
Jenson, Joan M. Calling This Place Home: Women on the Wisconsin Frontier, 1850-1925. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2006.
Jensen, Joan M. "The death of Rosa: Sexuality in Rural America," Agricultural History 67 (Fall 1993): 1-12.
Examines the death of a Wisconsin farm woman due to a botched abortion.
Jensen, Joan M. "'I'd Rather Be Dancing': Wisconsin Women Moving On." Frontiers 22, 1 (2001): 1-20.
Jensen, Joan M. "Sexuality on a Northern Frontier: the Gendering and Disciplining of Rural Wisconsin women, 1850-1920," Agricultural History 73, 2 (Spring 1999): 136-67
Johnson, Peter L. Daughters of Charity in Milwaukee, 1846-1946. Milwaukee: St. Mary's Hospital, 1946.
Johnson, Virginia Feld. Women of the Plywood : the World War II years. Algoma, WI: V. Feld Johnson, 1998.
Women of the Algoma Plywood and Veneer Co.
Jupp, Gertrude B. "The Heritage of Milwaukee-Downer College: A Reaffirmation." Milwaukee History 4, 2 (1981): 43-47.
Kanetzke, Howard. "Wisconsin Women." Badger History 33, 1 (September 1979.)
Issue of this children's magazine was devoted to women in Wisconsin history. Illustrated by Judy A. Patenaude. V. 22, 3 (1967) also featured Wisconsin women.
Kehoe, Alice B. "Recognizing Both the Carol Masons." Wisconsin Archeologist 82, 1-2 (2001): 3-6.
On two archeologists who worked in the Fox River Valley, Carol Irwin Mason and Carol L. Mason.
Kehoe, Karen. "Not a moment for Delay": Benevolence in Wisconsin During the Civil War Era." Ph.D. diss., Marquette University, 2004.
On Cordelia Harvey of Madison and Henrietta Colt of Milwaukee.
Kennedy, Kathleen. "Loyalty and Citizenship in the Wisconsin in the Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Association, 1917-1919." Mid-America 76, 2 (1994): 109-131.
The group supported war efforts to defeat Germany during WWI.
Kidwell, Clara Sue. "Power of Women in Three American Indian Societies." Journal of Ethnic Studies 6, 3 (1978): 113-121.
Kieckhefer, Grace Norton. "Milwaukee-Downer Rediscovers Its Past." Wisconsin Magazine of History 34 (1950/51): 210-214 and 241-2.
Kittell, M. Teresita. Refining His Silver: Pioneer Days of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1866-1911. Manitowoc: Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, 1979.
Kleinman, Lynne H. "Milwaukee-Downer College: A Study in the History of Women and the History of Higher Education in America, 1851-1964." Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1991.
Kleinman, Lynne H. "Writing Our Own History: a Class in Archival Sources," Feminist Collections 16, 3 (1995): 16-18.
Describes archival projects completed by students in a class Kleinman taught in Wisconsin women's history at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Kliebard, Herbert M. "The Feminization of Teaching on the American Frontier: Keeping School in Otsego, Wisconsin, 1867-1880," Journal of Curriculum Studies 27 (September/October 1995):545-61.
Women teachers received lower salaries than men teachers.
Kluender, Kala R., guest curator. With Wisconsin Women; Midwives in the Badger State Late 1800s to the Present (online exhibit), based on an exhibit mounted in the Historical Reading Room of Ebling Library, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 23 to July 31, 2007.
Kohler, M. Hortense. Rooted in Hope: The Story of the Dominican Sisters of Racine, Wisconsin. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co., 1962.
One hundred years of history.
Kohler, Ruth Miriam DeYoung. The Story of Wisconsin Women. Kohler: Committee on Wisconsin Women for the 1948 Wisconsin Centennial, 1948.
Kort, Ellen. A Voice of Her Own : Wisconsin Women and Their Quilts. Nashville, Tenn. : Rutledge Hill ; St. Albans: Verulam, 2000.
Krouse, Susan Applegate. "What Came Out of the Takeovers: Women's Activism and the Indian Community School of Milwaukee."American Indian Quarterly 27, 3-4 (2003): 533-547.
Discusses the women's goals in taking over a Coast Guard Station in Milwaukee in 1971 in support of the American Indian Movement (AIM).
Krueger, Lillian. Motherhood on the Wisconsin Frontier. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1951.
Krueger, Lillian. "Social Life in Wisconsin: From Pre-territorial Days to the Mid-Sixties." Wisconsin Magazine of History 22 (1938/39): 156-77, 312-28, and 396-426.
Kursch, Daisy. "The Milwaukee-Downer College Spirit." Milwaukee History 9, 4 (1986): 98-102.
Alumnae remembrances of the women's college.
Laberge, Marie Anne. "'Seeking a Place to Stand:' Political Power and Activism Among Wisconsin Women, 1945-1963." Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1995.
Demonstrates that women were politically active and central to the political debates of the era.
Laberge, Marie Anne. "Working Together or Working Apart: Socialist Women in the Wisconsin Suffrage Movement, 1910-1920." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1986.
Ladies Union League Papers, 1862-1864. Papers related to a woman's organization in Madison, Wis., that handled claims for money for Wisconsin soildiers and their families, donated food to hospitals for the sick, and corresponded with wounded soldiers during the Civil War; consisting of letters from hospitalized soldiers and others. Digitized by University of Wisconsin Digital Collections as part of the Wisconsin Goes to War: Our Civil War Experience Collection.
Lamek, Perry M. "The Queens of Racine: The Girls of Swat," Wisconsin Trails Magazine July-August 2003.
On one of the teams in the All-American Girl’s Professional Baseball League.
Lamoreaux, Jeanne D.(ed.) "Wisconsin Women." The Wisconsin Alumnus 45, 8 (May 1944): 4-7. (Click on the article from the table of contents.)
On notable graduates of the University of Wisconsin.
Langbaum, Samantha. "The Paradox of Aspiration and the Making of a Law: the Wisconsin Equal Rights Act of 1921." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992.
Langill, Ellen. Waukesha Service Club: a History 1930-2005. Waukesha, WI: The Club, 2005.
Larson, Bradley G. "Service in Skirts." Voyageur: Northeast Wisconsin's Historical Review 21, 1 (2004): 24-28.
Excerpt from author's Voices of History, 1941-45, about northeastern Wisconsin women in the military during World War II.
Larson, Margaret. For the Common Good : a History of Women's Roles in La Crosse County, 1920-1980. La Crosse, WI: League of Women Voters of La Crosse County : League of Women Voters Education Fund, 1996.
Based on oral histories.
Loew, Patty. "The Back of the Homefront: Black and American Indian Women in Wisconsin During World War II." Wisconsin Magazine of History 82, 2 (1998): 83-103.
Women quoted include the author's mother, Alice DeNomie Loew, and aunt, Mary Jane Aynes Kahl, both Ojibwes, and Marge Pascale, Frances Reneau, Nellie Wilson, May Caire, and Rubie Bond. Based on interviews conducted by the author (with her mother and aunt) and oral histories in the Wisconsin Women During World War II Oral History Project, 1992-1994, sponsored by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin.
Lorimer, Margaret. Ordinary Sisters : the Story of the Sisters of St. Agnes, 1858-1990. Fond du Lac, WI: Congregation of Sisters of St. Agnes, 2007.
Lueders Bolwerk, Carol A. "Dairy Farm Women in Wisconsin : the Changing Nature of Their Work, Roles, and Choices over Three Generation," Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1999.
Lundburg, Emma O. "Women in the University of Wisconsin." Wisconsin Alumni Magazine 9 (April 1908): 263-269.(Click on the article from the table of contents.)
Mack, Maureen D. Women of Madeline Island. Friendship, WI: New Past Press, 2006. (48p.)
On Ozhahguscodaywayquay (Susan) Johnston, 1772-18; Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, 1800-1; Emma Mansel Russell Johnson, 1872-197; and Agnes Windt Cadotte, 1903-1980.
Marston, Brenda. "We Want Our Vote to Count: Women's Peace Activism, 1914-1934." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1985.
On the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and its Wisconsin chapter in particular.
Masino, Susan. Famous Wisconsin Musicians. Oregon, WI: Badger Books, 2003.
Discusses the Wisconsin ties of Tracy Nelson, Ruby Starr, Hildegarde, the Cordettes, Jane Wiedlin, and numerous male musicians.
McBride, Elizabeth. "Juliette Kinzie Slept Here," Wisconsin Trails Magazine (March-April 2000).
On several of the interesting women who contributed to the history of Wisconsin.
McBride, Genevieve G. On Wisconsin Women : Working for Their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. Read an excerpt from the first chapter in the Wisconsin Magazine of History 89, no. 2 (Winter 2005-2006): 12-15.
See also McBride's Ph.D.diss. (University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989) "No 'Season of Silence': Uses of Public Relations' in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Reform Movements in Wisconsin" for more information on the pre-1866 suffrage period, especially from a communication perspective.
McBride, Genevieve G., ed. Women's Wisconsin: From Native Matriarchies to the New Millennium. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2005.
Contents: The first Wisconsin women -- Women on the Wisconsin frontier, 1836-1848 -- Statehood and the status of women, 1848-1868 -- Poverty and progress for women in Wisconsin, 1868-1888 -- Organized women, 1888-1910 -- "Forward" women in Wisconsin, 1910-1930 -- Women at war, 1930-1950 -- Never done: Women's work from the Wisconsin Centennial into the new millennium. Except for the last section, this volume reprints articles and excerpts from the Wisconsin Magazine of History, all introduced by McBride. The last section is a new essay by McBride.
Miller, Midge Leeper. "Wisconsin's Struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment," n.d. Wisconsin Women's Network website, http://www.wiwomensnetwork.org/wisconsinera.html.
Mitchell, Bonnie. "League of Women Voters Marks 50 Years." Wisconsin Then and Now 16, 2 (1969): 1-3.
The League was founded by two women with Wisconsin ties: Carrie Chapman Catt (born in Wisconsin but spent most of her life elsewhere) and Jessie Jack Hooper.
Moore, Alta Edna. "The History of the Woman Suffrage Campaign in the State of Wisconsin." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1940.
"More Than Four Hundred Women Hold Municipal Office in Wisconsin." American City 31 (August 1924): 155.
Morgan, Thomas J. and Nitz, James R. "Our Forgotten World Champions: the 1944 Milwaukee Chicks." Milwaukee History 18, 4 (1995): 30-45.
The Chicks won the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in 1944.
Morris, Mary Ellen J. Sketches from Memory. Resada, CA: Hungerford Press, 1942.
Of southwestern Wisconsin.
Mouser, Bruce. "Lots of Women's History Out There, If You Are Willing To Look For It: Black Women in La Crosse." Feminist Collections 7, 2 (Winter 1986): 4-9.
Research conducted using census information, church and local government records.
Mowry, Duane. "Women As School Officers." Arena 24 (August 1900): 198-206.
Murphy, Lucy Eldersveld. "Economy, Race, and Gender Along the Fox-Wisconsin and Rock Riverways, 1737-1832." Ph.D. diss., Northern Illinois University, 1995.
Examines the sexual division of labor and trade relations of the Indian villages along the waterways.
Neth, Mary. "Gender and the Family Labor System: Defining Work in the Rural Midwest." Journal of Social History 27, 3 (1994): 563-577.
Explores the sexual division of labor and the value of women's work on German and Norwegian immigrant farms in Wisconsin, Iowa, and North Dakota.
Neth, Mary. Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
Obenauer, Marie Louise. Employment of Women in Power Laundries in Milwaukee, A Study of Working Conditions and of the Physical Demands of the Various Laundry Occupations (Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, no. 122. Women in Industry Series, no. 3). Washington: Government Printing Office, 1913. Digitized in the "Women Working, 1800-1930" project, Harvard University Library.
Oberdeck, Kathryn J. "Class, Place, and Gender: Contested Industrial and Domestic Space in Kohler, Wisconsin, USA, 1920-1960," Gender & History 13, 1 (2001): 97-137.
Kohler company workers' wives played a comparatively lesser role in a strike activities there than they did in other strikes during the era.
Ogren, Christine A. "Where Coeds Were Coeducated: Normal Schools in Wisconsin, 1870-1922." History of Education Quarterly 35, 1 (Spring 1995): 1-26.
In contrast to the segregated experience for women students at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, those at the normal schools had many more shared experiences both in the classrooms and in activities.
Olin, Helen Maria Remington. The Women of a State University: An Illustration of the Working of Coeducation in the Middle West. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1909. Digitized in "Women Working, 1800-1930," Harvard University Libraries.
On the University of Wisconsin. For a contemporaneous take, see Anderson, William J. "The Women of State University." Wisconsin Alumni Magazine 11, 2 (Nov. 1909): 53-55. (Click on the article from the table of contents.)
O'Rourke, Alice. Let Us Set Out: Sinsinawa Dominicans, 1949-1985. Sinsinawa: Mazzuchelli Guild, 1986.
History of the Order in Sinsinawa, Wisconsin.
Ortlepp, Anke. Auf denn, ihr Schwestern! : deutschamerikanische Frauenvereine in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1844-1914. Stuttgart : F. Steiner, 2004; and article in English: "German American Women's Clubs: Constructing Women's Roles and Ethnic Identity." Amerikastudien [Germany] 48, 3 (2003): 425-442.
On German-American women's clubs in Milwaukee.
Ouimette, Helen. Country Catalog of Memories: A Childhood on a German-American Farm in the Late 1920's and Early 30's. Edited by Lori Ouimette Evans. Neillsville: H.E. Ouimette, 1986.
On farm life in Manitowoc County.
Palmini, Cathleen. "Across the Unknown Waters to Wisconsin: the Migration Narratives of Four Women Settlers,"Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters 88 (2000) :105-120. (Click on the article from the table of contents.)
Palmini, Cathleen, ed. "'The Broad Lakes Roll Between Us': Wisconsin Women's Letters Home." Inland Seas 59, 1 (2003): 46-57.
On Racheline S. Wood, Orpha Bushnell Ranney, Ann Chaney, and Annie R. Henderson who travelled across the Great Lakes to Wisconsin in the 19th cent.
Pawley, Christine. "A 'Bouncing Babe,' a 'Little Bastard:' Women, Print and the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950-1952," in Women in Print: Essays on the Print Culture of American Women from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand, (forthcoming, University of Wisconsin Press, 2006).
Pederson, Jane Marie. Between Memory and Reality: Family and Community in Rural Wisconsin, 1870-1970. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992.
Phillips, Dennis H. "Women in Nineteenth Century Wisconsin Medicine." Wisconsin Medical Journal 71 (November 1972): 13-18.
A Photo History of the National Weather Service in Green Bay (photographs of women employed by the NWS during World War II): http://www.crh.noaa.gov/grb/history.html.
Pienkos, Angela T. A Brief History of Polanki, Polish Women's Cultural Club of Milwaukee, 1953-1973. Milwaukee: Franklin Press, 1973.
Pioneers in the Law: the First 150 women. Madison, Wis. : State Bar of Wisconsin, Pioneers in the Law Committee, [1998] (80p. book, plus video by the same name). Also available at http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=History_of_the_Profession&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=35926
Plier, Virginia. Miracles and Memories, from the Model T to the Internet. Green Bay: Alt Publishing Co., 1997.
On life in Wauwatosa.
Putnam, Mabel R. Winning of the First Bill of Rights for American Women. Milwaukee: F. Putnam, 1924.
On the Wisconsin women's Bill of Rights, passed in 1921.
"Radio Revolution: Women Speak to Women about their Lives, 1930s-1960s," Wisconsin Magazine of History 90, no. 1 (2006-2007): 2-3.
This is an introduction to two articles listed under their authors, Erika Janik's "Good morning, homemakers!" and Nancy C. Unger's "The We Say What We Think Club,"both separately indexed by author in this bibliography.
Radcliffe, Irene and Robinson, Eleanor. History of Fauver Hill Study Club, Formerly Campbell Library Association. La Crosse, WI [?]: Doris Bowes and Judy Rockwood, 2001. [48p.] Rank, Kathryn Marie Gilbert. "Women and Prohibition in Milwaukee." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 1978.
Ranney, Joseph A. "The History of Wisconsin's Women's Rights Law. Part 1: Wisconsin Women and the Law, 1846-1920 http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Wisconsin_s_legal_history&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=35861 and "Part 2: Wisconsin Women and the Law Since 1920" http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Wisconsin_s_legal_history&TEMPLATE=/CM/ContentDisplay.cfm&CONTENTID=35862 from Wisconsin Lawyer.
Raymond, Tamara. "Search for Equality in Wisconsin." Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 70 (1982): 126-34. (Click on the article from the table of contents.)
On the passage of the Wisconsin's Equal Rights Law in 1921.
Rice, Mary Kellogg. Useful Work for Unskilled Women : a Unique Milwaukee WPA Project. Milwaukee, Wis. : Milwaukee County Historical Society, c2003.
Riley, Jocelyn, comp. Her Mother Before Her: Winnebago Women's Stories of Their Mothers & Grandmothers: A Resource Guide. Madison: Jocelyn Riley, 1995.
Riley, Jocelyn, comp. Winnebago Women: Songs & Stories: A Resource Guide. Madison: Jocelyn Riley, 1995.
Ripp-Shucha, Bonnie. "'This Naughty, Naught City': Prostitution in Eau Claire From the Frontier to the Progressive Era." Wisconsin Magazine of History 81, 1 (Autumn 1997): 31-54.
Roberts, James P. Famous Wisconsin Authors. Oregon, WI: Badger Books, Inc., 2002.
Includes Zona Gale, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Edna Ferber, Mountain Wolf Woman, Margery Latimer, Marya Zaturenska, Lorine Neidecker, Edna Meudt, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jane Hamilton, Lorrie Moore, Kelly Cherry, and Jacquelyn Mitchard, plus numerous male authors.
Rock, Cynthia Kickham. "The History of Abortion in Nineteenth-Century Wisconsin." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992.
Rogowski, Gini and Juene Nowak Wussow. "Milwaukee W.P.A. Dolls." Lore Magazine (Milwaukee Public Museum), 1996. r>
Works Progress Administration handicraft work by women.
Rumpf, Eva Augustin. "The Vote & Nothing But the Vote." Wisconsin Woman 4, 5 (August 1990): 6-7, 32.
Saler, Bethel. "Negotiating the Treaty Economy: Race, Gender, and the Transformation From an Indian to a White Territory in Northeastern Wisconsin, 1824-1852." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1992.
Savagian, John. "Women at Ceresco." Wisconsin Magazine of History 83, 4 (2000): 258-280.
Ceresco was a utopian community adjoining Ripon based on the philosophy of Chares Fournier. It lasted from 1844-1850. According to Savagian, women's roles were no less confining than in the mainstream society at that time, i.e., they were chiefly in the domestic sphere, although they did own stock in their own names in Wisconsin Phalanx, the company that created Ceresco.
Schulz, Dorothy Moses and Steven M. Houghton. "Married to the Job: Wisconsin Women Sheriffs." Wisconsin Magazine of History 86, 3 (2003): 22-37.
Schwalm, Leslie A. "The Antislavery and Reform Activities of Women in Wisconsin." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984.
Search, Mabel. "Women's Rights in Wisconsin." Marquette Law Review 6 (1922): 164-169.
Seitz, Jody Lee. "Gender and Dairying in Wisconsin: A Study of Evaluation of Labor on Two Nineteenth Century Farms." M.S. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1989.
Shafer, Mary A. Wisconsin: The Way We Were, 1845-1945. Minoqua, WI: Heartland Press, 1993.
Includes vignettes of Edna Ferber, Zona Gale, Jessie Jack Hooper, Belle Case La Follette, Dr. Kate Pelham Newcomb, and Laura Ingalls Wilder and many photographs of Wisconsin women.
Sherr, Lynn and Jurate Kazickas. The American Woman's Gazetteer. New York: Bantam Books, 1976.
Sourcebook of places and events in women's history. Wisconsin section, pp. 247-252.
Skrivseth, Marilyn. "The Evolution of the Wisconsin Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Conference from 1971 to 1993 as Experienced by the Primary Women's Athletics Administrators." Ph.D. diss., University of Iowa, 1995.
Speltz,Mark. "An Interest in Health and Happiness as Yet Untold: The Woman’s Club of Madison, 1893–1917." Wisconsin Magazine of History 89, no. 3 (Spring 2006): 2-15.
Spindler, Louise S. Menomini Women and Culture Change. American Anthropological Association Memoir 91. Issued as the American anthropologist [new ser.] v.64, no.1, pt.2, Feb. 1962. Menasha: American Anthropological Association, 1962.
Stachewicz, Ann N. "From "Disorderly Women" to "Little Girls": Gender, Class and Conflict in the Allis-Chalmers Strike of 1946-1947." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2006.
Stamp, Mark A. "Wisconsin's Marriage and Divorce Laws: A Historical Perspective." M.M.L. thesis, University of Wisconsin Law School, 1983.
Steinschneider, Janice. An Improved Woman : the Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs, 1895-1920. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Pub., 1994.
Step By Step: Building a Feminist Movement, 1941-1977 (video). Producers Joyce Follet and Marilyn Orner in association with Wisconsin Public Television. Madison: 1998. Distributed by Women Make Movies, New York.
Traces the gradual emergence of contemporary feminism during the time period through the life stories of eight women from Wisconsin and near-by states. Wisconsin women interviewed are Gene Boyer, Sr. Austin Doherty, Mary Eastwood, Dorothy Haener, Mary Lou Munts, Doris Thom, and Addie Wyatt. The work of Kathryn Clarenbach, who passed away before the video was made, is cited.
Stephens, Carolyn King. Downer Women, 1851-2001 : Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of the Charter of Milwaukee National Institute and High School. Milwaukee: Sea King Publications, 2003. Illustrated by Judith King Peterson.
Stevens, Michael E., ed., and Ellen D. Goldlust, assistant ed. Women Remember the War, 1941-1945. Madison : Center for Documentary History, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1993.
Based on oral history interviews with Wisconsin women.
Stout, Claude D. "The Legal Status of Women in Wisconsin." Marquette Law Review. Part I: V. 14, no. 2 (February 1930): 66-80; Part II: V. 14, no. 3 (April 1930): 121-69; Part 3, V.14, no. 4 (June 1930): 199-211.
Struna, Nancy and Mary L. Remley. "Physical Education for Women at the University of Wisconsin, 1863-1913: A Half Century of Progress." Canadian Journal of the History of Sport and Physical Education 4, 1 (1973): 8-26.
Swoboda, Marian J.; Roberts, Audrey J., editors. University Women: a Series of Essays. Madison: University of Wisconsin System Office of Women, 1980, and 1993. 4. v. All four volumes have been digitized by the University of Wisconsin Libraries:
V. 1: They Came to Teach, They Came to Stay; V. 2: Wisconsin Women, Graduate School, and the Professions; and V. 3: Women Emerge in the Seventies. V. 4: Women of Campus in the Eighties: Old Struggles, New Victories, edited by Marian J. Swoboda, Audrey J. Roberts, and Jennifer Hirsch. Madison: University of Wisconsin System Office of Equal Opportunity Programs and Policy Studies, 1993.
Talbot, George. At Home, Domestic Life in the Post-Centennial Era, 1876-1920. Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976.
Exhibition catalog.
Talsky, Mary Thereasa. "The Women of WISSA: History of Interscholastic Girls' Athletics in the Private and Parochial Secondary Schools of Wisconsin." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1999.
Thayer, Earl R. "Wisconsin's Pioneering Women Physicians," Wisconsin Academy Review 51, 2 (Spring 2005): 51-62.
Thomann, Beverly M. When a Woman Wills: a Narrative History of Ripon, Wisconsin Women. Ripon: American Association of University Women, Ripon Branch, 1981 (138 p.)
Tinling, Marion. Women Remembered: A Guide to Landmarks of Women's History in the United States. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986.
The Wisconsin section, pp. 558-571, covers houses, monuments, sites associated with events, and places named for women throughout the state.
Tomin, Barbara and Carol Burgoa. Multicultural Women's History: Curriculum Unit For the Elementary Grades. Windsor, CA: National Women's History Project, 1986.
Includes material on Ada Deer and Frances Willard.
Tonge, Grace. Ten Dynamic Women. Madison: School of Family Resources and Consumer Sciences, University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1984?
Stories and photographs of older women from Madison area: Jane Farwell, Gilma Gruen, Velma Hamilton, Helen Stick, Marie Boneff, Guniel Holt, Helen Larson, May Reynolds, Louise Lawton, and Verena Northey.
Transforming Women's Education : the History of Women's Studies in the University of Wisconsin System. Madison, WI: Office of University Publications for the University of Wisconsin System, Women's Studies Consortium, 1999.
Tuttle, Liza. : A Club of Their Own : 125 Years of the Woman's Club of Wisconsin. Milwaukee, Wis. : Woman's Club of Wisconsin, 2000.
Unger, Nancy C. "The We Say What We Think Club," Wisconsin Magazine of History 90, 1 (2006-2007): 16-27.
A talk radio program on WIBA, Madison, from 1937-1957.
Vecchio, Diane. "Connecting Spheres: Women, Work, and Family Life in Milwaukee's Italian Third Ward," Italian Americana, Spring 1994.
Vecchio, Diane. Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
On the work experiences of Italian immigrant women and their daughters in Milwaukee (and Endicott, New York) at the turn of the twentieth century.
Velie, Meredithe Ann. "Hierarchy and Web: A Study of Urban School Reform, Gender, and Cognitive Style in Milwaukee, 1890-1920." Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992.
Examines the life histories of three Milwaukee educational reformers during the Progressive Era: Meta Berger, Lizzie Kander, and Dorothy Enderis.
Vosko, Leah F. and Witwer, David, "Not a Man's Union: Women Teamsters in the United States During the 1940s and 1950s," Journal of Women's History 13, 3 (2001): 169-192.
Experiences of women members of Local 695, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, in Watertown, Wisconsin.
We Were Here: Contributions of Rock County Women. Janesville: American Association of University Women, Janesville Branch, 1975. (32 p.)
Weatherford, Doris, ed. "Wisconsin," A History of Women in the United States: State-by-State Reference. Danbury, CT: Grolier, 2004. (4 v.) Vol. 4: 229-255.
Summarizes Wisconsin women's history from prehistory and white exploration through the present. Contains short biographies of several prominent Wisconsin women (Mathilde Franziska Giesler Anneke, Tammy Baldwin, Olympia Brown, Catherine Taft Clark, Nancy Dickerson, Zona Gale, Margaret Newell H'Doubler, Lorena Alice Hickok, Jessie Annette Jack Houper, Lizzie Black Kander, Louise Phelps Kellogg, Belle Case La Follette, Helen Parkhurst,Vel R. Phillips, and Ellen Clara Sabin), descriptions of prominent sites, and a bibliography.
Weisbard, Phyllis Holman. "History of Women at the University of Wisconsin" webpage. Last update 2008.
Weisberger, Bernard A. "Changes and Choices: Two and a Half Generations of La Follette Women." Wisconsin Magazine of History 76, 4 (Summer 1993): 248-270.
On Belle, Isabel ("Isen"), Fola, and Mary La Follette.
Welch, Maureen. Wisconsin Women Writers of Adult Fiction and Poetry 1962-1992 (bibliography). Madison: University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian's Office, 1992 (21 p.) Published in the series "Wisconsin Bibliographies in Women's Studies." Available at: http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/bibliogs/wiswriters.htm
In addition to biographical information on the women writers, there is a three-page list of biographical and literary sources used in compiling the bibliography.
White, Sarah. Madison Women Remember: Growing Up in Wisconsin's Capital. Chicago: Arcadia, 2006.
Remembrances of Anne Stassi Bruno, Donna Laplley Fisker, Berverly Mickelson Fosdal, Ruby Helleckson Hubbard, Margaret Brink Ingraham, Winifred Lottes Lacy, Jackie Gregory Mackesey, Rosemary McGilligan McDermott, Anita Daitch Parks, Helen Blazek Richter, Regina Rhyne, and Susan Schmitz.
Williams, Nancy Greenwood. First Ladies of Wisconsin: the Governors' Wives. Kalamazoo, MI: 1991.
Wisconsin. Governor's Commission on the Status of Women. Real Women, Real Lives : Marriage, Divorce, Widowhood. Madison : The Commission, 1979.
Contains the life stories of women from a variety of backgrounds struggling to cope with divorce, child custody, etc., under the tax system and marital property laws then in force in Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Electronic Reader http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/
Includes fulltexts of works by Dexheimer and Youmans (see their listings elsewhere in this bibliography), plus pictures from the fight for women's suffrage in Wisconsin (http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/Galleries/Suffrage.html), biographies of Wisconsin women authors are included at http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/Contents/Authors.html and photographs of women are in the gallery section of the site, http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/Galleries.html
Wisconsin Historical Society. Women's Auxiliary. Famous Wisconsin Women. Madison: 1971-6.
Series of six illustrated pamphlets from exhibits at the State Historical Society.
Wisconsin Historical Society.Women's History in Wisconsin, web page.
Links to original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources available online, about the history of the suffrage campaign in Wisconsin, and other topics. The Wisconsin Historical Images collection includes a section on Women subdivided by portraits, women in education, women at leisure/play, women at war, women in political or social movements, and women at work. The Dictionary of Wisconsin History includes brief biographies of several prominent Wisconsin women.
Wisconsin Veterans Museum. "'This is my war too!'Women in the Military The Women’s Army Corps." Online exhibit.
Wisconsin Women: a Gifted Heritage. Goggin, Jeannine; Manske, Patricia Alland, project directors; Bletzinger, Andrea; Short, Anne editors. Madison?: American Association of University Women, Wisconsin State Division, 1982.
Illustrated biographies of many important historical and contemporary women.
Wisconsin Women for Agriculture: 1973-1998, 25 Years of Service: Information, Deliberation, Action. Wisconsin Women for Agriculture, 1998 (59 leaves).
Wisconsin Women On Parade: Celebrating Wisconsin Women. Madison: Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, 1986 (Bulletin no. 6333, 12 p.)
Includes descriptions of suffrage leader Olympia Brown, farmer Christine Kumlein, sculptor Helen Farnsworth Mears, and Dr. Kate Newcomb.
Wisconsin Women's Council. "Distinguished Wisconsin Women."
The complete text of a 1998 resolution made by the Wisconsin State Assembly honoring Wisconsin women, with links to biographical information about each woman mentioned.
Wisconsin Women's Network. "Chronology of Highlights of Wisconsin's Women's Movement Women's History." On the Network's Women's History web page, http://www.wiwomensnetwork.org/history.html. See also ""Wisconsin Women and the National Plan of Action" resolutions adopted in 1977 at the Wisconsin State Meeting and the first National Women's Conference in Houston, and "Wisconsin's Struggle for the Equal Rights Amendment."
Woman's Suffrage Movement Turning Points in Wisconsin History, #32, Wisconsin Historical Society.
Primary source documents: articles, books, pictures.
"Women at the Bar in the 20th Century." Wisconsin Law Magazine: http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Search&template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=35914
Women Who Forged the Way, produced by the Organization for Campus Women. La Crosse, WI:
Educational Television Center, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 1993 (video). Focuses on women who influenced the development of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse.
Writing on the Lakes, producer Jocelyn Riley. Madison: Jocelyn Riley Productions, 1998 (video).
Uses stills and songs to depict the thoughts of a woman traveling to Wisconsin in 1948.
Youmans, Theodora Winton. "How Wisconsin Women Won the Ballot." Wisconsin Magazine of History 5 (1921/2): 3-32. Available at: http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/Contents/Suffrage.html as part of the Wisconsin Electronic Reader, http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/.
Youmans provides a memoir of the 1912 campaign for woman suffrage in Wisconsin (the referendum lost 227,000 to 135,000) and events through enfranchisement. She also reviews the earlier efforts from 1849 on. For further information on Youmans and on the 1912 campaign, see "Theodora Winton Youmans and the Wisconsin Woman Movement," by Genevieve McBride in Wisconsin Magazine of History 71, 4 (1988): 243-275 and "The 1912 Suffrage Referendum: An Exercise in Political Action," by Marilyn Grant in Wisconsin Magazine of History 64 (Winter 1980-81): 107-118. For Wisconsin suffrage pictures, see http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/Galleries/Suffrage.html.
Zarob, Virginia. "Family in an Expanding Industrial Economy: Economic, Occupational, Social, and Residential Mobility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1860-1880." Ph.D. diss., Marquette University, 1976.
Zatopa, Patricia; DeNiro, Mary, editors. From Pioneer to Present, a tribute to Rhinelander Women: a Collection of Biographies. Rhinelander: Northwoods Chapter of the National Organization for Women, 1983 (32 p.)
Works on Individual Women
Included below are citations to women who spent a significant portion of their lives in Wisconsin. In addition to these citations, the Wisconsin Magazine of History in its early volumes (in the 1920s) frequently carried reminiscences by women of growing up in Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Alumni Magazine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison frequently spotlighted women graduates. The Wisconsin Alumni Magazine is available online through 1990 through the University of Wisconsin Digital Collection. Select it from the drop-down menu on the search page at http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/UW/Search.html, or browse individual issues via http://libtext.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/UW/UW-idx?type=browse&scope=UW.WAM. Several books on the history of women at the University of Wisconsin have been digitized by the UW Libraries. They include essays on individual professors, as well as programs, departments, and organizations. There are also numerous privately published family histories and genealogies available in the Wisconsin Historical Society Library and elsewhere (the subject heading "Wisconsin--Biography" retrieves them). Women born in Wisconsin who left the state in early childhood and went on to prominence in other places are generally not listed on this bibliography. Suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt (born in Ripon) and Little House on the Prairie's Laura Ingalls Wilder (born in Pepin) are examples of well-known figures who left Wisconsin as children. For biographical information on prominent contemporary Wisconsin women, consult Who's Who of American Women, issues of Wisconsin Woman (ceased publication in 1990), newspapers, and news magazines. Genealogists should try the US GenWeb Archives Project, Wisconsin section.Aber, Margery
Introduced the Suzuki method at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point and began the American Suzuki Institute in 1971.
D'Ercole, Patricia. "Margery Aber and the American Suzuki Institute." Wisconsin Academy Review (Spring 1995): 36-37.
Ahnen, Leona
Simons, Kelly. Leona's Legacy: Memories of a Farmer's Daughter. Woodruff, WI: Guest Cottage, 2002.
Aldrich, Hannah
Hannah Aldrich was an immigrant resident of Sylvan Township, Richland County.
Krynski, Elizabeth and Kimberly Little. "Hannah's Letters: the Story of a Wisconsin Pioneer Family, 1856-1864." Wisconsin Magazine of History. Part I: V. 74, no. 3 (Spring 1991), pp. 163-195; Part II: V. 74, no. 4 (Summer 1991), pp. 272-296; Part III: V. 75, no. 1 (August 1991), pp. 39-62.
Alvstad, Ingeborg Holdahl
Reminiscences by Alvstad of her family's emigration from Norway, the sinking of their ship, their settlement in Gilman Township, Pierce County, Wisconsin, in 1889, and her early years there as her family established a farm home. Digitized by the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections as part of the "Wisconsin Pioneer Experience Collection."
Anderson, Louise
Anderson, Louise. After the Sun has Set: Memories of 1898. NY: Vantage Press, 1987.
A year in the life of a 7 year old Wisconsin farm girl.
Anneke, Mathilde Franziska
German born feminist, social reformer, writer, and educator who established the Milwaukee Tochterschule, a school for girls.
Conk, Margo and Renny Harrigan. "Recovering Our Past: Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884)." Feminist Collections 7, 3 (Spring 1986): 3-6.
Krueger, Lillian. "Madame Mathilde Franziska Anneke: An Early Wisconsin Journalist." Wisconsin Magazine of History 21 (1937/38): 160-167.
"Mathilde Franziska Anneke." Entry in the Encyclopedia of Revolutions of 1848, maintained by James G. Chastain. http://www.ohiou.edu/~Chastain/ac/anneke.htm .
McDonnell, Judith. "Anneke, Mathilde Franziska Giesler (1817-1884)." In European Immigrant Women in the United States: A Biographical Dictionary, ed. by Judy Barrett Litoff and Judith McDonnell (New York: Garland, 1994): 5-6.
Piepke, Susan L. Mathilde Franziska Anneke (1817-1884): The Works and Life of a German-American Activist. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.
Appel, Livia
Appel was copy editor at the State Historical Society from 1948-1956.
Prucha, Francis Paul. "Livia Appel and the Art of Copyediting: a Personal Memoir." Wisconsin Magazine of History 79, 4 (1996): 364-380.
Ashmun, Margaret
Ashmun was an author from Rural, Wisconsin.
Wales, Julia G. "Margaret Ashmun: Wisconsin Author and Educator." Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 34 (1942): 221-29. (Click on the article from the table of contents)
Baird, Elizabeth T.
Baird, Elizabeth T. Reminiscences of Life in Territorial Wisconsin. Wisconsin Historical Collections, vol 15 (Madison: Democrat Printing Company, 1900): 205-263. Digitized by the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Baird, Elizabeth T. O-De-Jit-Wa-Win-Ning. Green Bay, WI: Heritage Hill Foundation, 1998.
The memoirs of a woman who "lived through the evolution of the Wisconsin territory from an untamed wilderness to a thriving state and center of commerce and agriculture." [quotation from distributor, the Brown County Historical Society,'s website: http://www.browncohistoricalsoc.org/books/ .]
Barney, Maginel Wright Enright
Barney, Maginel W. Valley of the God-Almighty Jones: Reminiscences of Frank Lloyd Wright's Sister, Maginel Wright Barney. With Tom Burke. New York: Appleton-Century, 1965.
Hamilton, Mary Jane. "Maginel Wright Barney: An Artist in Her Own Right." Wisconsin Academy Review 38, 4 (Fall 1992): 4-11.
Ortakales, Denise. "Maginel Wright Enright Barney" web page, updated 24 August 2002.
Berger, Meta
Berger (1873-1944) was an advocate for socialism, public education, women's rights and peace.
Berger, Meta. A Milwaukee Woman's Life on the Left: the Autobiography of Meta Berger, edited by Kimberly Swanson. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 2000. Chapter 5: "A Socialist in Congress!" digitized by the Wisconsin Historical Society. An interview with Swanson about Berger appeared as "A Milwaukee Woman's Life on the Left," in Wisconsin Magazine of History 85, 3 (2002): 56-57.
Berger, Victor and Berger, Meta. The Family Letters of Victor and Meta Berger 1894-1929. Edited by Michael E. Stevens. Madison : State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1995.
Stevens, Michael. "A Political Partnership: The Marrige of Victor and Meta Berger. Milwaukee History 19, 3 (1996): 95-104.
Billings, Sara
Sara Billings, letters 1864. Three letters, written August 20, September 2 and 21, 1864, by Sara Billings of Woodlawn, Wisconsin, to her brother, Captain Levi Billings of Company K, 28th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, containing details of everyday life and family members' activities. Digitized by University of Wisconsin Digital Collections as part of the Wisconsin Goes to War: Our Civil War Experience Collection.
Bock, Sadie Padley
Bock, Sadie Padley. Stagecoach to Jet in Three Generations. New York: Vantage Press, 1978 (49 p.)
Boyer, Gene
Feminist leader and businesswoman from Beaver Dam.
"Women's Movement Loses Champion and Visionary Organizer; In Memoriam: NOW Founder Gene Boyer." National Organization for Women, 2003.
Bradford, Mary Davison
Bradford, Mary Davison. Pioneers! O Pioneers!: Her Autobiography. Evansville, WI: Antes Press, 1937? Online as Memoirs as Mary D. Bradford: Autobiographical and Historical Reminiscences of Education In Wisconsin, Through Progressive Service From Rural School Teaching to City Superintendent as part of the Kenosha County Wisconsin GenWeb Project.
Reminiscenses of Kenosha teacher and superintendent of schools, who lived from 1856 to 1943.
Her memoirs were first published in eight installments in Jensen, Don. "Mary D. Bradford: Education Pioneer," Kenosha County.com (Kenosha News).
Brinton, Beulah
Social activist and midwife who arrived in Bay View in 1870.
Kursch, Daisy Estes. "Beulah Brinton of Bay View." Milwaukee History 10, 2 (1987): 38-46.
Brainerd, Mary Pease
Four Letters written by Mary ("Molly") Brainerd from rural Danville, Dodge County, Wis. to relatives in Michigan in the 1880s. Digitized by University of Wisconsin Digital Collections as part of the "Wisconsin Pioneer Experience Collection."
Brown, Olympia
Universalist Church minister, orator, and president of the Woman Suffrage Association of Wisconsin for 28 years. Brown lived from 1835-1926.
Brown, Olympia. Acquaintances, Old and New, Among Reformers. 1911. Digitized as part of the American Memory Project, Library of Congress.
Brown, Olympia. "Olympia Brown: an Autobiography." Journal of the Universalist Historical Society 4 (1963): 1-77. Olympia Brown's daughter, Gwendolen B. Willis, edited this autobiography, drawn from her mother's memoirs Acquaintances, Old and New, Among Reformers, privately published, 1911 (see above).
Cote, Charlotte. Olympia Brown: the Battle for Equality. Racine: Mother Courage Press, 1988.
Greene, Dana ed. Suffrage and Religious Principle: Speeches and Writings of Olympia Brown. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow, 1983.
Isenberg, Nancy Gale. "A Victory for Truth: The Feminist Ministry of Olympia Brown." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983.
Jackson, Susan. and Isabel O'Hanlon. "Olympia Brown," in Women of Courage: Ten North Country Pioneers in Profile. Potsdam, N.Y. : American Association of University Women, St. Lawrence County Branch, 1989.
Neu, Charles E. "Olympia Brown and the Woman Suffrage Movement." Wisconsin Magazine of History 43 (Summer 1960): 277-287.
Noble, Laurie Carter. "Olympia Brown," Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography.
Rury, John and Glenn Harper. "The Trouble with Coeducation: Mann and Women at Antioch, 1853-1860." History of Education Quarterly 26, 4 (1986): 481-502.
Differing views of the meaning of coeducation between Antioch president Horace Mann and student Brown.
"Wisconsin's Legal History: Olympia Brown,"Wisconsin Lawyer http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Search&template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=35917
Buck, Florence
Conner, Alice Anne. "The Rev. Florence Buck: Crusader for women," Kenosha County.com ( Kenosha News). Requires registration to access.
Byington, Mary
Byington, Mary. Woman Operator on the Milwaukee Railroad During World War II : A Memoir. Timber Lake, SD : M. Byington, 1998.
Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947
A suffrage leader born in Wisconsin. Her diaries from 1911-1912, written during a trip around the world, are in the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives (Wis Mss QP MAD 4/24/J3)
Clarenbach, Kathryn Frederick.
Organizer of the National Women's Political Caucus, first chair of N.O.W., planner of the National Women's Conference (1977), chair of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women for fifteen years, University of Wisconsin-Extension professor, and director of continuing education programs for women. Her papers are in the University of Wisconsin Archives, as is an oral history tape. A Finding Aid is online.
Chesler, Ellen. "Lives Well Lived: Kathryn F. Clarenbach." The New York Times Magazine (January 1, 1995): 25.
Many articles by and about Kathryn Clarenbach are available in the University of Wisconsin Digital Collection. Search for "Clarenbach" from the search page. These are some of the results:
Chapelle, Dickey, 1919-1995
War correspondent and photojournalist.
Her papers are in the Wisconsin Historical Society. See the online Finding Aid.
Chapelle, Dickey. What's a Woman Doing Here? A Reporter's Report on Herself. New York: Morrow, 1962.
Ostroff, Roberta. Fire in the Wind: The Life of Dickey Chappelle.New York: Ballentine, 1992.
Connor, Cecilia
Connor, Lafayette. Cecilia: the Trials of an Amazing Ojibwe woman, 1834-1892. Danbury, WI: Burnett County Historical Society, 2006.
Conroy, Catherine
Telephone worker and Communications Workers of America member; active in Coalition of Labor Union Women.
Oral History Interview, conducted by Elizabeth Balanoff, Milwaukee, 1976.The interview was conducted in conjunction an oral history project at the University of Michigan and was digitized by Roosevelt University Oral History Project in Labor History.
Curtin, Alma Cardell
Mikos, Michael J. "Alma Cardell Curtin, the Woman Behind Jeremiah Curtin." Milwaukee History 13 (1990): 53-68.
Jeremiah was a linguist and ethnologist. This article suggests that Alma should be credited with authorship of her husband's memoirs. See also "New Light on the Relationaship between Henryk Sienkiewicz and Jeremiah Curtin," by Michael J. Mikos, Slavic Review 50, 2 (1991): 422-432, which makes a similar point.
Deer, Ada
Ada Deer entry at http://www.africanpubs.com/nativepubs/Apps/bios/0033DeerAda.asp includes several biographical references. [Requires registration.]
Ada’s retirement: UW Says Goodbye to Ada Deer. Madison: American Indian Studies Program, 2007. (33 min. DVD).
Fanlund, Lari. "Indians in Wisconsin: A Conversation With Ada Deer." Wisconsin Trails: the Magazine of Life in Wisconsin 24 (March/April 1983):8-21.
Elkins, Frances
Innovative interior designer, born in Milwaukee.
Salny, Stephen M. Frances Elkins: Interior Design. New York: Norton, 2005.
Faust, Amelia Pedersen
Phillips, Peggy A. Millie's Story: Black River Country after the Frontier. Black River Falls: Published by Odana Press for the Jackson County Historical Society, 1994.
Fennema, Elizabeth
University of Wisconsin-Madison scholar of gender and mathematics.
Morrow, Charlene. "Elizabeth Fennema (1928 -)." In Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary, ed. by Charlene Morrow and Teri Perl ( Westport, CT; Greenwood, 1998): 51-56.
Ferber, Edna
Novelist Ferber (1887-1968) grew up in Appleton and worked on newspapers in Wisconsin.
Edna Ferber: Selected Resources from the Appleton Public Library site includes photographs, articles she wrote in the Appleton Post-Crescent newspaper and more.
"Edna Ferber." Excerpt from Wisconsin Authors and Their Works, by Charles Rounds (1918): http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/WER0050.html
Ferber, Edna. A Peculiar Treasure (autobiography). Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1960.
Ferber discusses her early years, including her experiences as a newspaper writer in Milwaukee.
Gilbert, Julie Goldsmith. Ferber, a Biography. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978.
Roberts, James P. Famous Wisconsin authors. Oregon, WI : Badger Books Inc., c2002.
Shapiro, Ann R. "Edna Ferber, Jewish American Feminist," Shofar 20, 2 (2002): 52-60.
Ferber had early experiences with ant-Semitism, yet in her novels created an idealized America, where people of any group could succeed, without prejudice.
Stevens, John. "Edna Ferber's Journalistic Roots." American Journalism 12, 4 (1995): 497-501.
Zimmerman, Mark. "Edna Ferber," Encyclopedia of the Self, n.d.
Iincludes links to digitized excerpts from her publications, photographs, etc.
Frackelton, Susan S.
Milwaukee artist.
Korenic, Lynette Marie. "The Decorative Fire of Susan S. Frackelton: China Painting, Art Pottery, and Book Illumination." Ph.D. diss., University of California, Santa Barbara, 2006.
Frey, Gertrude M. Neugebauer
Jorgenson, Shirley D. Gertrude's People. Madison: Stonefield Publishers, 1994.
Biography of woman from Beaver Dam.
Gale, Zona
Burt, Elizabeth. "Rediscovering Zona Gale, Journalist." American Journalism 12, 4 (1995): 444-61.
Derleth, August. Still Small Voice: The Biography of Zona Gale. New York: Appleton-Century Co., 1940.
Forman, Henry James. "Zona Gale: A Touch of Greatness." Wisconsin Magazine of History 46 (1962-63): 32-37.
Rux, Paul Philip. Zona Gale: Library Pioneer. Janesville: 1984? 79 slides, 1 audio tape and bibliography on author Gale (1874-1938).
Simonson, Harold Peter. Zona Gale. New York: Twayne, 1962.
"Zona Gale." Excerpt from Wisconsin Authors and Their Works, by Charles Rounds (1918): http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/WER0054.html
"Zona Gale 1874-1938." Webpage maintained by Donna M. Campbell, Gonzaga University, with numerous links to sites about her and online versions of her works: http://www.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl311/gale.htm .
Zona Gale: Her Live and Writings (video). Writer and producer Jocelyn Riley. Madison: Jocelyn Riley Productions, 1988.
Gerry, Eloise
Dr. Eloise Gerry: Scientist-Author-Teacher. Forest History Society website accessed December 12, 2005.
McBeath, Lida W. "Eloise Gerry: a Woman of Forest Science." Journal of Forest History 22, 3 (1978): 128-135.
Gibbons, Anna
Portage County native who had a career as a circus side-show performer.
Klem, Amelia. "A Life of Her Own Choosing: Anna Gibbons’ Fifty Years as a Tattooed Lady." Wisconsin Magazine of History 89, 3 (Spring 2006): 28-39.
Goodell, Lavinia
Rhoda Lavinia Goodell (1839-1880), originally from Utica, New York, moved to Janesville in 1871 and was admitted to the bar in Rock County in 1874.
Cleary, Catherine B. "Lavinia Goodell, First Woman Lawyer in Wisconsin." Wisconsin Magazine of History 74, 4 (1991): 243-271.
Davis, Paulette and Janet LaBrie. History's Ms. Stories: Lavinia Goodell, Wisconsin's First Female Attorney. 1 DVD (72 minutes). Janet LaBrie interviews Paulette Davis, who reenacts the life of Goodell.
Derichsweiler, Teresa M. "The Life of Lavinia Goodell Wisconsin's First Woman Lawyer." Student paper at Stanford Law School, 1997. Available at: http://www.stanford.edu/group/WLHP/papers/lavinia.html .
"Pioneers in the Law: Rhoda Lavinia Goodell.."Wisconsin Bar Association website: http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Search&template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=41470
Schier, Mary Lahr. Strong-minded Woman: the Story of Lavinia Goodell, Wisconsin's First Female Lawyer. Northfield, MN : Midwest History Press, c2001 (suitable for young readers).
Gramlich, Teresa
Nugent, Rosamond. Buried Wheat. Milwaukee: Bruce Publishing Co., 1967.
On Mother Gabriel, of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, Manitowoc.
Gratiot, Susan Hempstead, b. 1797
19th cent. pioneer in Lafayette County
Bale, Florence Gratiot. "A Packet of Old Letters." Wisconsin Magazine of History 11, 2 (December 1927): 153-168. Introduction and excerpts from her letters.
Grignon, Mary Elizabeth Meade
Crane, Virginia G. "History and Family Values, a Good Wife's Tale: Mary Elizabeth Meade Grignon of Kaukauna, 1837-1898." Wisconsin Magazine of History 80 (1997): 179-200.
Hamerstrom, Frances
Wildlife biologist, expert on raptors, and author of twelve books and over 150 scientific papers. She came to Wisconsin in the 1930s and lived with her husband in a farmhouse near Plainfield.
Corneli, Helen M. "The Hamerstroms: Conservation Pioneers in Hard Times." Wisconsin Magazine of History 82, 4 (Summer 1999): 255-286.
Corneli, Helen M. Mice in the Freezer, Owls on the Porch: The Lives of Naturalists Frederick and Frances Hamerstrom.Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2002.
Frederick Hamerstrom. Frances Hamerstrom. Induction, Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame, 1996.
Hamerstrom, Frances. My Double Life: Memoirs of a Naturalist. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994. Excerpted in "Fran Hamerstrom: A Passion for the Wild and Free," Wisconsin Academy Review 41, 2 (Spring 1995): 4-10.
Harnack, Mildred Fish
American English instructor and anti-Nazi activist in Germany, she was the only American civilian publically tried and executed inside the Third Reich.
Brysac, Shereen Blair. Resisting Hitler : Mildred Harnack and the Red Orchestra. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Garson, Sandra. "Better Not Write, But Don't Forget Me." The Wisconsin Alumnus 87, 4 (May/June 1986): 9-12 (click on the article from the table of contents page).
Honoring Mildred Fish Harnack: From Wisconsin Born and Educated to Resistance Fighter During World War II With the Red Orchestra Movement (a virtual exhibit with primary sources).
Harvey, Cordelia A. Perrine
Widow of Wisconsin governor Louis Harvey, Cordelia successfully lobbied with President Lincoln to bring wounded Union soldiers to Wisconsin for treatment.
Various reports and correspondence to and from Harvey are in the Wisconsin Goes to War: Our Civil War Experience digital collection. Harvey items include: Correspondence, 1862-64, Reports compiled by Doctors and forwarded by Mrs. Harvey, 1863-1864 (Vicksburg 1864), letters, 1910-1913, and typed transcriptions, 1910-1914. Digitized by University of Wisconsin Digital Collections as part of the Wisconsin Goes to War: Our Civil War Experience Collection.
Ernst, Kathleen. "An Angel From Wisconsin." Civil War Times Illustrated 28, 1 (1989):20-25.
Harrsch, Patricia G. "The Noble Monument: The Story of the Soldiers' Orphans' Home." Wisconsin Magazine of History 76, 2 (Winter 1992/3): 82-120.
Established in 1866 at the urging of Cordelia Harvey.
McKinney, Mrs. William. "Mrs. Cordelia A. P. Harvey." Sketches of Wisconsin Pioneer Women. (Fort Atkinson, Wis. : Hoard & Sons, [1924?]): 47-49. In the Wisconsin Electronic Reader, http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/wireader/WER0108.html
Mrs. Cordelia A. P. Harvey. Biography on the Second Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Association (reenactors organization) website accessed July 28, 2003. Includes text from McKinney above.
Hastings, Lucy
Correspondence in the 1850s and 1860s, including an 1855 description of moving from Massachusetts to Oxford, Wisconsin, and information on Indians around Oxford, moving to Eau Claire in 1857, and an Indian panic there in 1862. Digitized by University of Wisconsin Digital Collections as part of the "Wisconsin Pioneer Experience Collection."
Heard, Regie
Heard, Regie and Bonnie Langenhahn. Regie's Love: a Daughter of Former Slaves Recalls and Reflects. Menomonee Falls: McCormick and Schilling, 1987.
Born in Arkansas, African American Regie Heard moved to Milwaukee when she married. She and her husband operated the Angel Food Teashop restaurant in a Milwaukee mansion from 1926-1936.
Hoban, Margaret
Tolan, Sally. "Margaret Hoben: Educator." Milwaukee History 8 (Spring 1985): 11-23.
Holz, Alice
Hold, Alice. "Memories of the Milwaukee Leader." Milwaukee History 13, 1 (1990): 18-25.
A labor movement leader reminisces about the newspaper.
Hooper, Jessie Annette
Suffrage speaker, Democratic Party leader, and peace activist from Oshkosh. Her papers, mainly from 1920-35, are in the Wisconsin Historical Society (various locations).
Smith, James Howell. "Mrs. Ben Hooper of Oshkosh: Peace Worker and Politician." Wisconsin Magazine of History 46 (1962/63): 124-135.
Hoxie, Vinnie Ream
Sculptor.
Cooper, Edward S. Vinnie Ream: An American Sculptor. Chicago: Academy Chicago, 2004.
DeBirny, Cecile Ream. "Vinnie Ream." Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine 107, 2 (1973): 88-103.
Stathis, Stephen W. and Lee Roderick. "Mallet, Chisel, and Curls." American Heritage 27, 2 (1976): 44-47, 94-96.
Vinnie Ream Hoxie on the Arlington National Cemetery website.
"Vinnie Ream Hoxie" by Patricia Chadwick on the History's Women website [article in process of being replaced, 12/12/2005].
Vinnie Ream Hoxie website. Last accessed December 12, 2005.
Huey, Mrs. Thomas
Address (transcript), 1924, in which she reminisces about her life in Dunn County, Wisconsin, between 1863 and 1883. Digitized by University of Wisconsin Digital Collections as part of the "Wisconsin Pioneer Experience Collection."
Hunter, Amy Louise
A graduate of the Yale School of Medicine and its public health program, Hunter was Director of the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health of the Wisconsin Board of Health.
Adams, Sean Patrick. "Who Guards Our Mothers, Who Champions Our Kids? Amy Louise Hunter and Maternal and Child Health in Wisconsin, 1935-1960." Wisconsin Magazine of History 83, 3 (2000): 181-201.
Hurd, Ann Augusta Jaquins and Hurd, Mary Olivia
Hurd, Ann A. Letters of Ann Augusta Jaquins Hurd and Mary Olivia Hurd Arno, 1858-1897. Edited by Helen H. Cooperman. Chicago: H.H. Cooperman, 1988.
Late nineteenth-century mother-daughter correspondence in central Wisconsin.
James, Ada
Finding aid to her papers in the Wisconsin Historical Society, and selected folders from that collection digitized by the University of Wisconsin Libraries.
James, Ada and Hooper, Jessie Annette
Graves, Lawrence. "Two Noteworthy Wisconsin Women: Mrs. Ben Hooper and Ada James." Wisconsin Magazine of History 41 (1957/58): 174-180.
Jastrow, Rachel
Rachel Jastrow started the Madison chapter of Hadassah, a national Jewish women's organization founded by her sister, Henrietta Szold.
Levin, Alexandra Lee. "The Jastrows in Madison: A Chronicle of University Life, 1888-1900." Wisconsin Magazine of History 46 (1962/63): 243-256.
Jennings, Janet
Walsh, John Evangelist. "Forgotten Angel: The Story of Janet Jennings and the Seneca." Wisconsin Magazine of History 81, 4 (1998): 267-293.
Jones, Nellie Kedzie Sawyer
Jones (1858-1956) was a leader in establishing the study of home economics on the college level.
Jones, Nellie Kedzie Sawyer. "Nellie Kedzie Jones's Advice to Farm Women: Letters From Wisconsin, 1912-1916," edited by Jeanne Hunnicott Delgado. Wisconsin Magazine of History 57 (1973): 3-27. Also published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in its "Wisconsin Stories" Series.
Jordan, Elizabeth Garver
See chapter in Wisconsin Authors and Their Works, edited by Charles Ralph Rounds. Madison, Wis. : Parker Educational Co., 1918.
Kander, Lizzie Black
Kander assembled The Settlement Cookbook (the 1910 edition, excerpts digitized by the Wisconsin Historical Society).
Fritz, Angela. "Lizzie Black Kander and Culinary Reform in Milwaukee, 1880-1920." Wisconsin Magazine of History 87, 3 (2004): 36-49.
Johnson, Beth DiNatale. "Kander, Lizzie Black, 1858-1940." In Jewish Women in America: An Historical Encyclopedia, ed. by Paula E. Hyman and Deborah Dash Moore (New York: Carlson Press, 1997): V. I: 717-718.
Kann, Bob. A Recipe for Success: Lizzie Kander and her Cookbook. Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2007 (for children).
Uebelherr, Jan. "100 years of ' The Settlement'." Milwaukee Journal Sentinel April 18, 2001.
Waligorski, Ann Shirley. Social Action and Women: the Experience of Lizzie Black Kander. M.A. Thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1970.
Kellogg, Louise Phelps
Librarian.
Kinnett, David. "Miss Kellogg's Quiet Compassion." Wisconsin Magazine of History 62, 4( 1971): 267-299.
Kohler, Ruth de Young
Journalist
Mitchell, Bonnie. "Wade House Serves as a Lasting Memorial to History-Minded Wisconsin Woman," Wisconsin Then and Now 15, 6 (1968): 1-4. Ruth De Young worked for the Chicago Tribune as a writer and editor. After she married Herbert Kohler of Wisconsin, she moved to Wisconsin and was active on many local and state historical projects, including the restoration of Wade House.
Kinzie, Mrs. John H.
Bogue, Margaret Beattie. "As She Knew Them: Juliette Kinzie and the Ho-Chunk, 1830-1833." Wisconsin Magazine of History 85, 2 (Winter 2001-2002): 44-57.
Kinzie, Mrs. John H. Wau-Bun: the "Early Day" in the Northwest. Introduction by Nina Baym. Urbana: University of Illinois, 1992.
Mrs. Kinzie (1806-1870) originally published her description of pioneer life and Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, in 1856. It has been published in numerous editions, including one edited with notes and introduction by Eleanor Kinzie Gordon (1901), and one with notes and introduction by Louise Phelps Kellogg (1948 and 1975). The 1873 edition was digitized by the Library of Congress's American Memory Project.
Purdy, Helen M. "Mrs. John H. Kenzie." In Sketches of Wisconsin Pioneer Women. (Fort Atkinson, Wis.: Hoard & Sons, [1924?]): 95-97. In the Wisconsin Electronic Reader: http://www.library.wisc.edu/etext/WIReader/WER0110.html
La Budde, Wilhemine Diefenthaeler
Conservationist.
Elsner, Jennifer M. "Wilhe[l]mina Diefenthaeler La Budde and Wisconsin Women's Involvement in Forest Conservation, 1925-1955." M.A. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2000.
La Follette, Belle Case
Belle: the Life and Writings of Belle Case La Follette (video). Writer and producer Jocelyn Riley. Madison: 1987.
Uses photographs and words of Belle Case La Follette (1859-1931), who describes her views of her home, family, and life with her husband Robert M. La Follette (U.S. congressman and senator, Wisconsin governor) and her leadership role in suffrage, peace and progressive movements.
Freeman, Lucy; La Follette, Sherry; Zabriskie, George A. Belle: the Biography of Belle Case La Follette. New York: Beaufort Publishers, 1985.
Montgomery, Dee A. "Intellectual Profile of Belle Case La Follette: Progressive Editor, Political Strategist, and Feminist." Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 1975.
"Pioneers in the Law: Belle Case La Follette." Wisconsin Bar Association website: http://www.wisbar.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Search&template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=41313
Riley, Jocelyn. "Belle Case La Follette." Wisconsin Academy Review 34, 2 (March 1988): 20-23. (Click on the article from the table of contents.)
Unger, Nancy C. "The Two Worlds of Belle Case La Follette." Wisconsin Magazine of History 83, 2 (Winter 1999/2000): 83-110.
Adapted from the chapter "Belle Case La Follette: Women's Victory, Women's Tragedy," in Unger's Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000).
Laird, Helen Connor
Laird, Helen L. A Mind of Her Own: Helen Connor Laird and Her Family, 1888-1982. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
A leader in politics and education on the community and state level, Helen C. Laird was the mother of Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird, Jr., and grandmother of Wisconsin First Lady Jessica Doyle.
Lenroot, Clara (Clough)
Lenroot, Clara (Clough). Long, Long Ago. Appleton, WI: Badger Printing Co., 1929.
Reminiscences of mid-nineteenth century Wisconsin childhood.
Lerner, Gerda
The doyenne of the field of women's history and professor emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Fischer, Joan. "Resistance and Triumph: an Interview With Gerda Lerner," Wisconsin Academy Review Spring 2002: http://www.wisconsinacademy.org/review/vol48_2/interview.html.
Gerda Lerner: A Pioneer of Women's History. National Women's History Project website. Accessed July 28, 2003.
Lerner, Gerda, Fireweed: a Political Autobiography. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2002.
"Lerner, Gerda (1920- )." In American Women Historians 1700s-1990s: A Biographical Dictionary, by Jennifer Scanlon and Shaaron Cosner (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996): 144-146.
Strasser, Judith. "Pioneering Professor: Gerda Lerner." Re://Collections, Jewish Women's Archive Newsletter 1, 2 (Fall 1999).
Levy, Augusta
Levy, Augusta. "Recollections of a Pioneer Woman of La Crosse." Edited by A.H. Sanford. Proceedings of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin 59 (1911): 201-15.
Mid-nineteenth century La Crosse.
Lund, Alice Dahlin
Lund, Alice Dahlin. "I Want to Write About My Days of a Slower Progress," in Writings of Farm Women 1840-1940: an Anthology, by Carol Fairbanks and Bergine Haakenson (New York: Garland, 1990): 95-123.
Selection from memoir of life in West Sweden, Wisconsin, in 1860s and 1870s.
Lurie, Nancy Oestreich
"Nancy Oestreich Lurie." In Women Anthropologists: Selected Biographies, edited by Uta Gacs, et al (New York: Greenwood, 1988); reprinted in Wisconsin Archeologist 74 (1993): 3-9, with updated information by Dawn Scher and Carter Lupton.
Lynde, Mary Blanchard
Langill, Ellen D. Speaking with an Equal Voice: The Reform Efforts of Milwaukee's Mary Blanchard Lynde." Wisconsin Magazine of History 87, 1 (2003): 18-29.
Maidhood, Edna
Dodgeville teacher, editor, and poet.
Maidhood, Edna. Rose Jar: The Autobiography of Edna Maidhood. Madison: North Country Press, 1990.
Marinette, -- Queen of the Menominees, 1793-1865
Johnson, Beverly Hayward . Queen Marinette: Spirit of Survival on The Great Lakes Frontier. Amasa, MI : White Water Associates, 1995.
Biography of a "French and Native American woman who lived near the mouth of the Menominee River during the early 1800s. An intelligent, competent and respected businesswoman, for whom the city Marinette, Wisconsin is named." [Quotation from the distributor, the Brown County Historical Society's webpage, http://www.browncohistoricalsoc.org/books/.]
Martin, Mary Laurentine
Views From My Schoolroom Window: The Diary of School Teacher Mary Laurentine Martin, edited by Jennifer Cain Bohrnstedt. Authorhouse, 2006.
Account of a 19th century Janesville woman who started teaching school at age 15.
McKay, Nellie Y.
UW-Madison Professor of African American Studies, Women's Studies, and English.
Moody, Jocelyn. "Nellie McKay: A Memorial," African American Review 40, 1 (2006):5-38.
Blockett, Kimberly and Rutledge, Gregory, ed. "'The Nellie Tree': Or, Disbanding the Wheatley Court," African American Review 40, 1 (2006):39-66.
Mears, Helen Farnsworth (1871-1916)
Ella, Janet. "Sculptor Helen Farnsworth Mears." Wisconsin Academy Review 32, 2 (March 1986): 19-22. (Click on the article from the table of contents.)
Green, Susan Porter. Helen Farnsworth Mears. Oshkosh: Castle-Pierce Press, 1972.
Hiles, Mary. "Helen Farnsworth Mears." Voyageur: Northeast Wisconsin's Historical Review 20, 2 (2004): 46-51.
"The Story of a Statue." (anon.) Wisconsin Then and Now 9, 8 (1969): 1-3.
Meir, Golda
Brown, Michael. "The American Element in the Rise of Golda Meir, 1906-1929." Jewish History [Israel] 6, 1-2 (1992): 35-50.
Meir, Golda. My Life. New York: Putnam, 1975.
From Russia to Milwaukee to Israel. The section describing her childhood in Milwaukee is excerpted in "A Political Adolescence," Wisconsin Academy Review 43, 1 (Winter 1996/97): 13-19.
Mendez-Mendez, Serafin. "Golda Meir: The Formation of a Modern Political Leader." Connecticut Review 15, 2 (1993): 37-48.
Mendenhall, Dorothy Reed
Physician, lecturer in Maternal and Child Health, University of Wisconsin.
Coleman, Joyce E. "Mendenhall, Dorothy Reed." In From Home Economics to Human Ecology: A One Hundred Year History at the University of Wisconsin. Accessed December 4, 2003.
Zwitter M.; Cohen J.R.; Barrett A.; Robinton E.D. "Dorothy Reed and Hodgkin's Disease: a Reflection After a Century," International Journal of Radiation Oncology. 53, 2 (June 2002): 366-375.
Merrill, Harriet Bell
University of Wisconsin Zoologist Merrill (d. 1915) did field work in the Amazon.
Hartridge, Merrillyn L. The Anandrous Journey: Revealing Letters to a Mentor. Amherst Press, 1997.
Work by Merrill's grand-niece, based on her letters to Edwin A. Birge, Dean of the University of Wisconsin Department of Zoology, and other material.
Hartridge, Merrillyn L. "H.B. Merrill: Early Wisconsin Scientist and Adventurer." Wisconsin Academy Review 41, 2 (Spring 1995): 16-22.
Meudt, Edna
Teacher and poet.
Meudt, Edna. The Rose Jar: The Autobiography of Edna Meudt. Madison, WI: North CountryPress, 1990.
Roberts, James P. Famous Wisconsin authors. Oregon, WI : Badger Books Inc., c2002.
Miller, Ellen Spaulding
Selections from the Papers of an Eau Claire resident, from 1863 and 1870-1887. The collection consists largely of letters written principally by her to family members who probably lived in New York. The letters reflect domestic life, family relationships, economic conditions, lumbering, religious revivals, and health conditions in the lumbering capital of northwestern Wisconsin. Digitized by University of Wisconsin Digital Collections as part of the "Wisconsin Pioneer Experience Collection."
Miller, Frieda Segelke
Miller grew up in La Crosse and graduated from Milwaukee-Downer College. She was director of the U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau (1944-53) and later worked for the International Labor Organization and the International Union for Child Welfare.
Wallace, Teresa Ann. "Frieda Segelke Miller: Reformer and Labor Law Administrator." Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 1983.
Minoka-Hill, Lillie Rosa
Reared in a Hicksite Quaker preparatory school and educated at the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia, Minoka-Hill (1876-1952) married an Oneida Indian from Wisconsin and settled on the Oneida Reservation.
Apple, Rima D. "Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill." Women and Health 4, 4 (Winter 1979): 329-31.
Hill, Roberta Jean. "Dr. Lillie Rosa Minoka-Hill: Mohawk Woman Physician." Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 1999.
Moesser, Anona (1907-2002)
Nurse from Green Bay who directed American Red Cross service clubs during World War II.
Somerville, Lee. "Her Boys." Voyageur: Northeast Wisconsin's Historical Review 21, 1 (2004): 10-15, 17-22.
Monroe, Margaret Ellen.
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Memoirs of a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies.
Morris, Mary Ellen Joiner (1848-1940)
Morris, Mary Ellen Joiner. Sketches From Memory. Resada, CA: Hungerford Press, 1942 (55 p.)
Morrison, Eliza
A part Ojibwa woman who lived