Indexes and Bibliographic Notes

From Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz -- Online Notes For The Book

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Bibliographic Notes and Supplementary Text

These notes and essays supplement the endnotes in Woman Lawyer: The Trials of Clara Foltz, providing additional source material for the facts and interpretations. Some are traditional bibliographic notes, mainly listings of essential references with a few words of critical explanation. But since these are on-line and unconstrained by space limitations, I have also included first person essays on my interpretations of materials, sources that contributed to my thinking generally, and descriptions of people and events that influenced Clara Foltz, but whose stories do not fit with hers, or would extend it unduly.

Generally the notes follow the order of the book chapters and assume familiarity with the main text. The Index to Woman Lawyer cites the on-line material by subject. Some notes embed chunks of text. For instance, the Note on Nineteenth Century Newspaper Publishing has a description of the content of the San Diego Bee over a ten day period during Foltz’s editorship.

A biography written over many years has more sources than can be cited even in this format – especially in a burgeoning new field like women’s legal history. I have tried to cite the main works that influenced my thinking, which may not be exactly the same as all the main works. In a larger sense, virtually everything I have read concerning women’s rights and nineteenth century history is in here somewhere even though not mentioned explicitly. To those whose work deserves more recognition than I have given it here, my sincerest apologies.

List of On-Line Bibliographic Sources

Introductory

1. About and By Clara Foltz: Biographical Material and Her Writings
2. Notes on Archival Sources
3. Notes on Women Lawyers History and Individual Biographies (in alphabetical order)
4. Notes on Friends and Allies (in alphabetical order)

Chapter One

1. Notes on Family and Mt. Pleasant, Iowa

• • Parents
  • Two Old Brothers
  • Samuel Shortridge

1. Notes on the Workingmen’s Party of California (WPC)
2. Notes on California Constitutional History
3. Notes on The Women's Movement, Free Love and Spiritualism
4. Notes on San Francisco Social Life and Clara Foltz's Circle
5. Notes on Women and Divorce

Chapter Two

1. Notes on Women as Public Lecturers
2. Notes on Women and Jury Service
3. Notes on San Diego in the Real Estate Boom
4. Notes on Nineteenth Century Newspaper Publishing
5. Notes on Bellamy Nationalism

Chapter Three

1. Notes on the Woman's National Liberal Union Convention
2. Notes on Late Nineteenth Century Politics

Chapter Four

1. Notes on the World's Fair
2. Notes on Women at the World's Fair
   1. Notes on the Women's Congresses
   2. Notes on Participation in the Other Auxiliary Congresses
3. Notes on Post-Fair Suffrage Campaigns
4. Notes on the New Woman
5. Notes on Trella Toland and her Autograph Book
6. Notes on Law Practice in the West
7. Notes on the New York Legal Scene
8. Notes on the Oil Boom and Foltz’s Companies

Chapter Five

1. Notes on Murder Defendants and Equal Justice

Chapter Six Chapter Seven

1. Notes on Progressivism, Suffrage, and Public Defense
2. Notes on Victory in California -- 1911
3. Notes on Foltz the Founder of Public Defense
4. Notes on the Early History of Public Defense
5. Notes on the Right to Counsel and the Appointed Counsel System
6. Notes on Foltz's Arguments for Public Defense
7. Notes on New York Politics and Foltz’s Public Defender Bill
8. Notes on Comparison of Public Defender Statutes
9. Notes on Comparison of Progressive Defender with Foltzian Model