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Sources and Acknowledgements

Research Sources: 

• Aynes, Richard L. "Kate Chase, the "Sphere of Women's Work," and Her Influence upon Her Father's Dissent in Bradwell v. Illinois." Ohio History 117, no. 31 (2010) 31-49.

• DuBois, Ellen. Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women’s Movement in America, 1848-1869. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1978.

• Friedman, Jane A. America’s First Woman Lawyer: The Biography of Myra Bradwell. Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1993.

• Gilliam, Nancy T. “A Professional Pioneer: Myra Bradwell’s Fight to Practice Law.” Law and History Review 5, No. 1 (1987), 105-133.

• Jordan, Gwen Hoerr. “‘Horror of a Woman’: Myra Bradwell, the 14th Amendment, and the Gendered Origins of Sociological Jurisprudence.” Arkno Law Review 42, no. 4 (2009), 1201-1240.

• Larson, Erik. The Devil in the White City. [Electronic Resource]: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America. Crown Publishers, 2003.

• Norgren, Jill. Rebels at the Bar : The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America’s First Women Lawyers. New York: NYU Press, 2013.

• Rowe, G. S. “Femes Covert and Criminal Prosecution in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania,” The American Journal of Legal History, Vol. 32, No. 2 ( 1988), 138-156.

• Salmon, Marylynn. Women and the Law of Property in Early America. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1986. 

• Spector, Robert M. “Women against the Law: Myra Bradwell’s Struggle for Admission to the Illinois Bar.” Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 68, no. 3 (1975), 228-242.

• Welter, Barbara. “The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860.” American Quarterly 18, no. 2 part 1 (1966): 151-174. 

• Wilson, Joan H. “The Legal Status of Women in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.” Human Rights 6, no.2 (1977): 125-134.

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• Illinois Digital Archives 

• Chicago History Museum 

• Library of Congress

  • Digital Collections 

Acknowledgements

• Special thanks to my Appalachian State University professors:

  • Dr. Rwany Sibaja for leading this project into the digital history realm.

  • Dr. Allison Fredette for serving as my thesis advisor and guiding my research.