Let Her Speak for Herself

Preface

Introduction

Part 1: Eve-The Mother of Us All

1 Hannah Mather Crocker Observations on the Real Rights of Women (1818)

2 Lucy Barton Bible Letters for Children (1832)

3 Esther Hewlett Copley Scripture History for Youth (1833) and Scripture Biography (1835)

4 Favell Lee Mortimer The Peep of Day (1833)

5 Sarah Moore Grimké Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman (1838)

6 Angelina Emily Grimké Weld Letters to Catherine Beecher (1838)

7 Catherine Hunt Putnam The Gospel by Moses, in the Book of Genesis; or, the Old Testament Unveiled (1854)

8 E. C. C. Baillie The Protoplast (1853)

9 Cecil Frances (Fanny)Alexander "The Temptation" (1854)

10 Sophia Goodrich Ashton The Mothers of the Bible (1855)

11 Christina Georgina Rossetti "Eve" (1866) and "A Helpmeet for Him" (1888)

12 Charlotte Maria Tucker (A.L.O.E.) House Beautiful (1868)

13 Sarah Town MartynWomen of the Bible (1868)

14 Elizabeth Rundle Charles Sketches of the Women of Christendom (1880)

15 Etty Woosnam The Women of the Bible: Old Testament (1881)

16 Ray Frank "Women in the Synagogue" (1894)

17 Henriette Greenebaum Frank "Modern Jewish Women" (1894)

18 Julia Wedgwood The Message of Israel in the Light of Modern Criticism (1894)

19 Lillie Devereux Blake The Woman's Bible (1895)

20 Elizabeth Baxter The Women of the Word (1897)

Conclusion

Part 2: Sarah-The First Mother of Israel

21 Sarah Trimmer A Help to the Unlearned in the Study of the Holy Scriptures (1805)

22 Frances Elizabeth King Female Scripture Characters: Exemplifying Female Virtues (1813)

23 Sarah Ewing Hall Conversations on the Bible (1818)

24 Grace Aguilar The Women of Israel (1845)

25 Rebekah Hyneman "Sarah" (1846)

26 Elizabeth Fries ElletFamily Pictures from the Bible (1849)

27 Catherine Hunt PutnamThe Gospel by Moses in the Book of Genesis (1854)

28 Sophia Goodrich Ashton The Mothers of the Bible (1855)

29 Harriet Beecher Stowe Women in Sacred History (1873)

30 Etty Woosnam The Women of the Bible: Old Testament (1881)

31 Julia Wedgwood The Message of Israel in the Light of Modern Criticism (1894)

32 Clara Bewick Colby The Woman's Bible (1895)

33 Elizabeth Baxter The Women in the Word (1897)

Conclusion

Part 3: Hagar-The Wanderer

34 Sarah Trimmer A Help to the Unlearned (1805)

35 Sarah Hall Conversations on the Bible (1818)

36 Grace Aguilar "The Wanderers" (1838)

37 Penina Moise"Genesis, Chap. XXI" (1842)

38 Susan Warner Walks from Eden (1866)

39 Charlotte Maria Tucker (A.L.O.E.) House Beautiful (1868)

40 Sarah Town Martyn Women of the Bible (1868)

41 Harriet Beecher Stowe Women in Sacred History (1873) and Footsteps of the Master (1877)

42 Etty Woosnam The Women of the Bible: Old Testament (1881)

43 Mary Elizabeth Beck Bible Readings on Bible Women (1892)

44 Harriet Morton From the Beginning or Stories from Genesis (1893)

45 M. G. Women like Ourselves (1893)

46 Josephine Elizabeth Butler The Lady of Shunem (1894)

47 Sarah Elizabeth Turnock The Women of the Bible (1898)

48 Eloise Alberta Bibb "The Expulsion of Hagar" (1895)

49 Mary L. T. Witter Angels (1900)

Conclusion

Part 4: Rebekah-Mother of Two Nations

50 Frances Elizabeth King Female Scripture Characters; Exemplifying Female Virtues (1813)

51 Lady Morgan Woman and Her Master (1840)

52 Grace Aguilar The Women of Israel (1845)

53 Cecil Frances (Fanny) Alexander "Isaac and Rebekah" (1854)

54 Sarah Hale Woman's Record (1855)

55 Susan WarnerWalks from Eden (1866)

56 Etty Woosnam The Women of the Bible: Old Testament (1881)

57 Elizabeth Julia Hasell Bible Partings (1883)

58 Mary L. T. Witter The Edomites (1888)

59 Mary Elizabeth Beck Bible Readings on Bible Women (1892)

60 M.G. Women Like Ourselves (1893)

61 Ada Ruth Habershon The Study of the Types (1898)

Conclusion

Part 5: Leah and Rachel-Founder of the House of Israel

62 Adelaide O'Keeffe Patriarchal Times (1811)

63 Mary Cornwallis Observations, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Canonical Scriptures (1817)

64 Sarah Hall Conversations on the Bible (1818)

65 Grace Aguilar The Women of Israel (1845)

66 Clara Lucas Balfour The Women of Scripture (1847)

67 Sarah Hale Woman's Record (1855)

68 Constance and Annie de Rothschild The History and Literature of the Israelites (1870)

69 Harriet Beecher Stowe Women in Sacred History (1873)

70 Leigh Norval Women of the Bible (1889)

71 M. G. Women Like Ourselves (1893)

72 Elizabeth Baxter The Woman in the Word (1897)

73 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Clara Bewick Colby The Woman's Bible (1895)

Conclusion

Part 6: Lot's Wife and Daughters, Dinah, Tamar, Potiphar's Wife-The Other Women of Genesis

Lot's Wife and Daughters

74 Sarah Trimmer A Help to the Unlearned in the Study of the Holy Scriptures (1805)

75 Mary Cornwallis Observations, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Canonical Scriptures (1817)

76 Sarah Ewing Hall Conversations on the Bible (1818)

77 Eliza Smith The Battles of the Bible (1852)

78 Sophia Goodrich Ashton The Mothers of the Bible (1877)

79 Charlotte Mary Yonge Young Folks' Bible History (1880)

80 Etty Woosnam The Women of the Bible: Old Testament (1881)

81 Mrs. Donaldson Home Duties for Wives and Mothers, Illustrated by Women of Scripture (1882)

Dinah

82 Sarah Trimmer A Help to the Unlearned in the Study of the Holy Scriptures (1805)

83 Mary Cornwallis Observations, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Canonical Scriptures (1817)

84 Sarah Hale Woman's Record (1855)

85 M. G. Women Like Ourselves (1893)

Tamar

86 Sarah Trimmer A Help to the Unlearned in the Study of Holy Scripture (1805)

87 Mary Cornwallis Observations, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Canonical Scriptures (1817)

88 Sarah Hale Woman's Record (1855)

Potiphar's Wife

89 Mary Cornwallis Observations, Critical, Explanatory, and Practical on the Canonical Scriptures (1817)

90 Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lillie Devereux Blake The Woman's Bible (1895)

Conclusion

Bibliography

Subject Index

Scripture Index