Scope and Contents

21 pages typed, 39 pages handwritten, with corrections, additions, and annotations.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: This finding aid describes the manuscript material from the New Woman Collection formed by Philip Cohen, and consists of letters, literary manuscripts, autographs, photographs, and other ephemera created by and related to the authors, actresses, and activists central to the feminist and suffragist movements of the 1890s as well as those female writers and public figures who opposed them. Though the term "New Woman" was coined in 1894 and is most commonly associated with 1890s women's rights...