A reprint of historian Barbara Rivette’s 1969 biography of Matilda Joslyn Gage as suffragist, this book presents excerpts from Gage’s 1880 writings about the New York school vote campaign. With notes by Sue Boland.

Gage had the honor of being the first woman voter of Fayetteville, N.Y., in 1880, forty years before ratification of the 19th amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing the right to vote for all female citizens of the United States. In fact, thousands of women in New York State voted throughout the 1880s and 1890s, long before woman suffrage was recognized in New York. How could this be? Rivette answers that question.

This important work was the first biography written about Gage. Part of the four-book Reader Series published by the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation.

Author: Barbara Rivette, with notes by Sue Boland
Format: Paperback; 22 pp
Publisher: The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation

“Write the stories you tell your children,” Matilda Joslyn Gage advised her son-in-law, L. Frank Baum. Gage also shared the vision of peace and social justice that inspired the feminist utopia Baum later created in his Wizard of Oz series. In The Wonderful Mother of Oz, Sally Roesch Wagner examines the remarkable relationship between Baum and the Gage family. Part of the four-book Reader Series published by the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation that examines different aspects of Gage’s life and work.

Author: Sally Roesch Wagner, Ph.D.

Format: Paperback; 24 pp

Publisher: The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation

Edited reprint of Matilda Joslyn Gage’s presidential speech at the founding convention of the Woman’s National Liberal Union, the organization she started in 1890 to ensure the separation of church and state. This speech is Gage’s exhilarating reply to those who would extend their religious authority beyond their houses of worship. With an introduction by Sally Roesch Wagner. Part of the four-book Reader Series published by the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation that examines different aspects of Gage’s life and work.

Author: Matilda Joslyn Gage

Format: Paperback; 26 pp

Publisher: The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation

Catherine Littlefield Greene, Si-Ling-Chi, Ann Harned Manning, Semiramis—their names are mostly lost to memory, yet these women changed the world through their inventions. Matilda Jolsyn Gage, co-leader of the early women’s rights movement alongside Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, wrote about not only these women but also many others. This publication is a modernized reprint of an article written by Gage in 1883. It is women’s history as told by one of the most dedicated chroniclers of women’s achievements. Part of the four-book Reader Series published by the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation that examines different aspects of Gage’s life and work.

Author: Matilda Joslyn Gage

Format: Paperback; 22 pp

Publisher: The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation

Buy the set of all four books in the Matilda Joslyn Gage reader series, each book highlighting a different aspect of Gage’s life and work. The series provides a wonderful introduction to Gage and fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in women’s history.

Each book can be bought separately. But all four as a set come at a discounted price.

Format: Paperbacks

Publisher: The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation