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Isabella Beecher Hooker

The Yellow Wallpaper

The Yellow Wallpaper

by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ancestral halls for the summer.

A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house,
and reach the height of romantic felicity—but that would be asking too much of fate!

Still I will proudly declare that there is something queer about it.

Else, why should it be let so cheaply? And why have stood so long
untenanted?

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. Continue reading The Yellow Wallpaper →

Isabella Beecher Hooker

“A Mother’s Letters to a Daughter on Woman Suffrage” (1868)

A Mother’s Letters to a Daughter on Woman Suffrage
by Isabella Beecher Hooker

Tracts of Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association, No. 2
Hartford, Conn.

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The Constitutional Rights Of The Women Of The United States

 

The Constitutional Rights Of The Women Of The United States: An Address Before the International Council of Women, Washington D. C., March 30, 1888

by Isabella Beecher Hooker

In the month of August, 1774, that eminent statesman and true patriot, Thomas, Jefferson, in a little tract entitled “A Summary View of the Rights of British America,” used certain words which I will take for my text while addressing you to-day on the “Constitutional Rights of the Women Citizens of the United States.” They are these: Continue reading The Constitutional Rights Of The Women Of The United States →