Women and the Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1775–1925

Jillmarie Murphy is William D. Williams Professor of Literature, Neuroscience, and Women's & Gender Studies, and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies at Union College, New York.

• Volume III: Environmental Precarity—Social Justice & MarginalizationGeneral IntroductionVolume III IntroductionPart 1. Slavery & Abolition1. Elizabeth Heyrick, Immediate, Not Gradual Abolition; or, An Inquiry Into the Shortest, Safest, and Most Effectual Means of Getting Rid of West Indian Slavery (London: Hatchard and Son, Piccadilly, 1824).2. Octavia Victoria Rogers, ‘Charlotte’s Story’, ‘Cruel Masters’, and ‘Sallie Smith’s Story’, in The House of Bondage (New York: Hunt and Eaton, 1891), pp. 7-13, 21-26, 86-93.3. Rose O’Neal Greenhow, ‘On to Richmond!’, in My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule in Washington (London: Richard Bentley, 1863), pp. 11-24.Part 2. Poverty and the Working-Class Woman4. ‘On the melancholy fate of a Young Woman, who died lately in New-York, In the 16th year of her age—from the circumstances, and in the manner related in the following VERSES’, in The Humming Bird; Or, Herald of Taste, 1, April 14, 1798, pp. 3-4.5. Susanna Haswell Rowson, ‘The Roses of Life’, Miscellaneous Poems (Boston: Gilbert and Dean, 1804), pp. 86-88.6. Barbara [Wreaks] [Hofland] Hoole, ‘Occasional Lines to Poverty’, Poems by Barbara Hoole (London: J. Montgomery, 1805), p. 231.7. Barbara [Wreaks] [Hoole] Hofland, ‘The Fireside’, Poems by Barbara Hoole (London: J. Montgomery, 1805), pp. 3-5.8. Sarah Pogson Smith, ‘To the Reader’, and ‘The Gentile’, in Daughters of Eve, by a Lady. Published in Aid of the New York Female Association, for the Support and Instruction of the Indigent Deaf and Dumb; Their Being at This Time Seventy Applicants, Who Cannot be Received at the Institution from Inadequate Funds. (Schenectady: G. Ritchie, Jr., 1826), pp. 4, 16-199. Elizabeth Campbell, ‘The Life of My Childhood’, in Songs of My Pilgrimage (Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1875), pp. ix-xvii.10. Attractions of Cooperstown: Otsego Lake, Being a Descriptive Sketch of the Picturesque Village and the ‘Glimmerglass’, Scenic Attractions in the Vicinity, Views, Rambles, Drives, Etc., Etc., Etc. (Glens Falls: C.H. Possons, 1891), p. 3.11. Helen Stuart Campbell, ‘Preface’, ‘Worker and Trade’ and ‘Among the Shop Girls’, in Prisoners of Poverty Abroad: Women Wage-Workers, Their Trades and Their Lives (Cambridge: John Wilson and Son, 1887), pp. i-ii, 7-17, 174-18512. Helen Stuart Campbell, ‘Preface’, ‘Both Sides of the Sea’ and ‘London Shop Girls’, in Prisoners of Poverty Abroad (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889), pp. iv, 8-18, 123-130.Part 3. Eco-Indigeneity 13. Marianna Burgess, ‘Preface’, and ‘Chapter I: Disappointment’, in Stiya: A Carlisle Indian Girl at Home (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1891), 1-8.14. John P. C. Shanks, ‘November 11, 1872’, in Annual Report by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to the Secretary of the Interior for the Year 1873 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1874), pp. 162-163.15. George Bird Grinnell, ‘Note’, ‘The Ghost Wife’, and ‘The Ghost Bride’, in Pawnee: Hero Stories and Folk-Tales (New York: Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 1890), pp. v-vi, 129-131, 192-19416. Pliny Earle Goddard, ‘Matters of Sex and Motherhood’, ‘Care of Children’, ‘Dawn of Womanhood’ and ‘Courtship and Marriage’, in Life and Culture of the Hupa (Berkeley: University Press, 1903), pp. 50-56Part 4. Nonbinary Bodies in Indigenous Environments17. George Gibbs, ‘Burdash’, Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or Trade Language of Oregon (New York: Cramoisy Press, 1863), p. 2.18. Robert H. Lowie, ‘Berdaches’, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. IX, Part II, edited by Clark Wissler (New York: Order of the Trustees, 1912), p. 226.19. Clark Wissler, ‘The Berdache Cult’, Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Volume XI, Part I (New York: Order of the Trustees, 1912), np. 9220. Douglas C. McMurtrie, ‘Notes on the Psychology of Sex: Berdache Among the Illinois’, The American Journal of Urology: Genito-Urinary and Venereal Diseases, Volume X, edited by William J. Robinson, M.D. (New York: The Urologic Publishing Association, January-December 1914) p. 43521. Gladys A. Reichard, Social Life of the Navajo Indians, With Some Attention to Minor Ceremonies (New York: Columbia University Press, 1925) p. 150.Part 5. Mannish Females in the Environs22. E. Lynn Linton, ‘The Girl of the Period’, reprinted verbatim by permission from the Saturday Review (Bristol: R. W. Bingham, 1868) pp. 3-10.23. E. Lynn Linton, ‘Feminine Affectations’ [excerpt], The Saturday Review 25 (June 13, 1868), p. 777.24. William Sloane Kennedy, excerpt from ‘The Englishman in His Island’, The Conservator 11 (January, 1901), p. 166.25. M.B., ‘Why She Fails to be Mannish’, Galveston Daily News 51 (August 28, 1892), p. 526. K. White, ‘Chapter VI,’ A Narrative of the Life, Occurrences, and Vicissitudes, and Present Situation of, K. White (Schenectady, 1809), pp. 61-70.27. ‘A Most Wonderful Case—Death of a Woman who for Twenty-five Years Passed as a Man’, Sacramento Daily Record-Union (January 1, 1880),28. ‘A Female Husband’, The Manchester Guardian (11 April, 1838), p. 2.29. ‘The Woman-Husband’, Manchester Guardian (14 April, 1838), p. 230. ‘An Interesting Case: The Countess Sarolta Vay’s Marriage to a Pretty Young Maiden’, Clipping, London Daily News (1890). Digital Transgender Archive, https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/files/jq085k306 31. Havelock Ellis, excerpt from ‘Chapter IV: Sexual Inversion in Women’, in Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Volume II (Philadelphia: F. A. Davis company, 1921), pp. 195-196.32. Amy Levy, ‘To Vernon Lee’, A London Plane-Tree and Other Verse (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1889), p. 74.Part 6. Environments of Religious Precarity33. Grace Aguilar, ‘Introduction’, The Jewish Faith: Its Spiritual Consolation, Moral Guidance, and Immortal Hope (Philadelphia: Sherman & Co., 1873), pp. 7-19.34. Sultan Jahan of Bhopal, ‘A Ruling Indian Princess on Women in Islam’, Muslim India and Islamic Review 1 (February 1913), pp. 449-453.35. Mary Weitbrecht, ‘Chapter V: Hindu Women as Wives, Mothers, and Widows’, Women of India and Christian Work in the Zenana (London: James Nisbet & Co., 1875), pp. 47-54.36. Launcelot Cranmer-Byng and Dr. S. A. Kapadia, eds. ‘The Wife’s Miscellaneous Duties’, Women and Wisdom of Japan (New York: E. P. Dutton and company, 1908), pp. 38-42.37. Marian Bonsall, ‘An Introduction to Mormonism’, The Tragedy of the Mormon Woman (Minneapolis: The Housekeeper Corporation, 1908), pp. 5-16.38. Annie Wittenmyer, ‘Horrible Condition of Thousands’, Women’s Work for Jesus (Philadelphia: Published by the Author, 1871), pp. 21-28, 30.Part 7. Ageing Female in the Environs39. J.G., ‘The Coquette’, The Humming Bird 1 (June 5, 1798), p. 20.40. E. Lynn Linton, ‘The Fashionable Woman’, and ‘Mature Women’, in The Girl of the Period and Other Social Essays, Vol. I (London: Richard Bentley and Son, 1883), pp. 110-118, 203-212.41. Mrs. John A. Logan, The Home Manual. Everybody’s Guide in Social, Domestic, and Business Life (Boston: A. M. Thayer and Company, 1889), p. 147.42. Charles Dickens and William Henry Wills, ‘Old Ladies’, Household Words: A Weekly Journal, Volume XI (3rd February – 28th July, 1855), pp. 97-101.43. Mary Heaton Vorse, ‘The Shadow of Age’, Autobiography of an Elderly Woman (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), pp. 1-31.Index