Jane Gray Swisshelm: Journalist, feminist, & abolitionist

Articles

"Between Antislavery and Abolition: The Politics and Rhetoric of Jane Grey Swisshelm," by Michael D. Pierson.
In Pennsylvania History, vol. 60, no. 3 (July 1993): pp. 305-321.
MNHS call number: F 146. P635 v.60:3

"Gender and Vigilantism on the Minnesota Frontier: Jane Grey Swisshelm and the U.S.-Dakota Conflict of 1862," by Sylvia D. Hoffert.
In Western Historical Quarterly, vol.29, no. 3 (autumn 1998): pp. [343]-362.
MNHS call number: 591.W464 v.29:3


"Jane Grey Swisshelm: 19th Century Journalist and Feminist,"
 by Kathleen Endres.
In Journalism History, vol.2, no.4 (winter 1975-1976): pp. 128-132.
MNHS call number: PN 4801 .J69 v.2:4.

"Jane Grey Swisshelm and Feminism in Early Minnesota," by Paula A. Treckel.
In Midwest Review, 2nd ser., v. 2 (spring 1980): pp. 1-17.
MNHS call number: PN 4874.S947 T73 1980

"Jane Grey Swisshelm—Editor and Speaker."
In Roots, vol. 20, no. 1 (fall 1991): pp. 28-29.
MNHS call number: Reading Room F 602.A28 v.20:1

"Strong Women, Innocent Blacks, and Fierce Savages: Jane Grey Swisshelm’s Construction of Race and Gender" by Maurine Beasley and William E. Huntzicker.
In Minnesota's Heritage, no. 7, (Jan. 2013), p. 40-53.
MNHS call number: Reading Room F601.5 M8 no.7

"Strong-minded Women: Jane Grey Swisshelm, White-Collar Worker," by Margaret Farrand Thorp.
In Delphian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 3 (July 1941): pp. [11]-17.
MNHS call number: PN4874.S947 T56 1941

Books

Jane Grey Swisshelm: An Unconventional Life, by Sylvia D. Hoffert.
Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
MNHS call number: HQ 1413 .S95 H64 2004

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Minnesota Women, by Bonnye E. Stuart.
Guilford, Conn.: TwoDot, c2004.
MNHS call number: CT3262.M6 S278 2004 (p. 1-14)

Notable American Women, 1607-1950; A Biographical Dictionary, Edward T. James, editor.
Jane Grey Swisshelm, vol. 3, p. 415-417
Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971.
MNHS call number:  Reading Room CT3260.N57 vo. 3

Shadows Illuminated: Women in a Rural Culture, by Terry Jaakkola and Julia Lambert Frericks, edited by John C. Massmann.
St. Cloud, Minn.: Stearns County Historical Society, 1996.
MNHS call number: HQ 1438.M6 J33 1996

 

 

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