Author: erinbaggs

When we read “The Indian Wife” by Lydia Maria Child on the Google Books digital surrogate, it was still early in the semester and I had not fully grasped the implications of reading archival texts online versus in a physical form, let alone comparing different online formats of these writings. Screenshot of "The Indian Wife" … Continue reading Through Crinkles and Splotches: the Experience of Reading an Excellent Digital Surrogate

Alice Duer Miller by unknown photographer via Wikipedia / public domain Alice Duer Miller is a name that in many ways was swept away with the forces of history. Her legacy and voice should not be forgotten; her activism for suffrage combined with her writing career produced important pieces. I will attempt to compile a … Continue reading Alice Duer Miller Biography and Bibliography: A Scribbling Woman Who Should Be Remembered

Hertwig, John George. Woman Suffrage Pamphlet. Washington, D.C: Eckler, printer], 1883. Digital surrogate available on Gale Cenage Learning (license required) https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=NCCO&u=balt85423&id=GALE|AYOQLV128351566&v=2.1&it=r&sid=NCCO&asid=74a2c182 Woman Suffrage: Equal Rights to All in All Matters of Public Concern is a title that might have had you thinking seriously about letting American women vote, if you were debating the issue of … Continue reading John Hertwig’s 1883 Arguments Against Women’s Suffrage: Why They Still Matter in 2020