Indexes and Bibliographic Notes

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

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. Archival and Investigative Materials
3. Women’s History
   1. Legal Status of Women in the Nineteenth Century
   2. Feminism and Women’s Rights: Nomenclature
   3. Women’s Biography
4. Women Lawyers History and Individual Biographies
   1. Myra Bradwell
   2. Lavinia Goodell
   3. Belva Lockwood
   4. Arabella (Belle) Mansfield
   5. Marilla Ricker
   6. Lelia Robinson

Chapter One

1. Notes on Family and Mt. Pleasant, Iowa
   1. Parents
   2. Siblings
   3. Foltz’s Children
   4. Mt. Pleasant and Howe’s Academy
2. Foltz’s Friends and Allies
   1. Lillie Devereux Blake
   2. Clara Colby
   3. Abigail Duniway
   4. Laura Gordon
   5. Grove L. Johnson
   6. Sarah Knox-Goodrich
3. The Workingmen’s Party of California (WPC)
   1. Rise and Composition of the WPC
   2. WPC and the Anti-Chinese Movement
   3. Relation with the Workingmen’s Party of the United States (WPUS)
4. California Constitutional History
   1. Convention of 1879
   2. Passage of the Anti-Discrimination Clauses
   3. Prominent Pro-Woman Delegates
      1. Henry Blackmer
      2. David Terry
      3. Charles Ringgold
      4. James J. Ayers
      5. Alphones Vacquerel
   4. Prominent Opponents
5. Notes on Women and Divorce

Chapter Two

1. Notes on Women as Public Lecturers
2. Notes on Women and Jury Service
   1. The Washington Territory Experience
3. Notes on San Francisco Social Life and Clara Foltz's Circle
4. Notes on San Diego in the Real Estate Boom
5. Notes on Nineteenth Century Newspaper Publishing
6. Notes on Bellamy Nationalism
   1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Chapter Three

1. Law Practice in the West
   1. General works
   2. Biographical works
   3. Clara Foltz’s practice
   4. Women and Criminal Law Practice
2. Notes on Late Nineteenth Century Politics
   1. General Sources: Populism; Coxey’s Army; Haymarket; the Pullman Strike, California and the 1894 Election, Mary Elizabeth Lease, Stephen White
3. Foltz as Reform Lobbyist

Chapter Four

1. Notes on the New Woman
2. Notes on Trella Toland and her Autograph Book
   1. Isaac Trumbo
3. Notes on the New York Legal Scene
   1. Women’s Legal Education Society (WLES) and Law Class
   2. Corporate practice
   3. Criminal practice
4. Notes on the Oil Boom and Foltz’s Companies

Chapter Five

1. Notes on Murder Defendants and Equal Justice

Chapter Six

1. Notes on Suffrage History
   1. Seneca Falls
   2. Historiography
   3. Relationship to Other Movements and Causes
   4. Notes on The Women's Movement, Free Love and Spiritualism
2. Notes on the Woman's National Liberal Union Convention
   1. Matilda Gage
   2. Theosophy and Madame Blavatsky
   3. Notable Attendants
   4. William Aldrich and Josephine Cables Aldrich
   5. Elliott and Emily Coues
   6. Charlotte Smith
   7. Aftermath of Foltz’s Remarks
3. Notes on the World's Fair
4. Notes on Women at the World's Fair
   1. Notes on the Women's Congresses
   2. Notes on Participation in the Other Auxiliary Congresses
5. Notes on Post-Fair Suffrage Campaigns
   1. New York
   2. California
6. Notes on Victory in California -- 1911
   1. The Suffrage Campaign
   2. Lillian Coffin and Katherine Edson

Chapter Seven

1. Notes on Progressivism, Suffrage, and Public Defense
2. Notes on the Early History of Public Defense
   1. The Legal Aid Society
3. Notes on Foltz the Founder of Public Defense
4. Notes on Foltz's Arguments for Public Defense
   1. Prosecutorial Misconduct
   2. Burdening the Right
5. Notes on the Right to Counsel and the Appointed Counsel System
6. Notes on New York Politics and Foltz’s Public Defender Bill
7. Notes on Comparison of Public Defender Statutes
   1. 1885 Statute
   2. 1897 Statute
   3. The 1912 Los Angeles Charter Provision and the 1921 Statute
8. Notes on Comparison of Progressive Defender with Foltzian Model