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. 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 are traditional bibliographic notes listing essential references with a few words of critical explanation. But I have also included first person essays and descriptions of people and events that influenced Clara Foltz, but whose stories do not fit with hers, or would extend it unduly. For instance, the Note on Nineteenth Century Newspaper Publishing, (see notes for chapter two) describes in detail 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. Timelines
   1. Life Events
   2. Passage of Constitutional Clauses
   3. Public Defender Campaign
4. Women’s History
   1. Legal Status of Women in the Nineteenth Century
   2. "Feminism" and Women’s Rights: Nomenclature
   3. Women's Biography
5. Women Lawyers History and Individual Biographies
   1. Myra Bradwell
   2. Lavinia Goodell
   3. Mary Greene
   4. Belva Lockwood
   5. Arabella (Belle) Mansfield
   6. Marilla Ricker
   7. Lelia Robinson

Chapter One

1. 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. Sarah Knox Goodrich
   5. Laura Gordon
   6. Grove L. Johnson
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 at the 1879 Convention
      1. James J. Ayers
      2. Eli T. Blackmer
      3. Charles Ringgold
      4. David Terry
      5. Alphonse Vacquerel
   4. Prominent Opponents
5. Women and Divorce

Chapter Two

1. Women as Public Lecturers
2. Women and Jury Service
   1. The Washington Territory Experience
3. San Francisco Social Life and Clara Foltz's Circle
4. San Diego in the Real Estate Boom
5. Nineteenth Century Newspaper Publishing
   1. A Bee Sampler
      1. The Boom
      2. Outside News
      3. Local Excitement
      4. Regular Items
      5. Civic Events
      6. Society and Fashion
      7. Last Days at the Bee
6. Bellamy Nationalism
   1. Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Chapter Three

1. Law Practice in the West
   1. General works
   2. Biographical works
      1. Oscar Shuck's Work
   3. Clara Foltz’s Practice
   4. Women and Criminal Law Practice
      1. Lelia Robinson
      2. Women Defenders: The Negative Image
      3. Women Defenders and Women Jurors
      4. Laura Gordon and the Sproule Case
      5. Why Women Became Defenders
      6. The Contributions of Women to Criminal Defense
2. Late Nineteenth Century Politics
   1. General Sources
      1. Coxey's Army, The Pullman Strike, and the Haymarket Tragedy
      2. Bellamy Nationalism and Populism
      3. Women's Pre-Suffrage Participation in Politics
      4. 1894 Election in California
   2. Mary Elizabeth Lease
   3. Stephen White
   4. Anna Ferry Smith
3. Foltz as Reform Lobbyist in the 1890s
   1. Parole Legislation
   2. Women's Rights Measures

Chapter Four

1. The New Woman
2. Trella Toland and Her Autograph Book
   1. Writers and Journalists
   2. Actors
   3. Theater People
   4. Trella's Family: William Toland, Sam Shortridge, and Virginia Toland
   5. Isaac Trumbo
3. The New York Legal Scene
   1. Women’s Legal Education Society (WLES) and Law Class
   2. Corporate practice
   3. Criminal practice
4. The Oil Boom and Foltz’s Companies

Chapter Five

1. Murder Defendants and Equal Justice
   1. Women as Criminal Defendants
      1. The Death Penalty
      2. Maria Barbella
      3. Laura Fair
      4. Florence Maybrick

Chapter Six

1. Suffrage History
   1. Legal Status of Women in Nineteenth Century
   2. Seneca Falls
   3. Historiography
   4. Relationship to Other Movements and Causes
      1. Suffrage and Other Women's Rights
      2. Suffrage and Black Civil Rights Movement
      3. Suffrage and Temperance and Prohibition
2. The Woman's National Liberal Union Convention
   1. General Sources
   2. Matilda Gage, President
   3. Reaction to Foltz’s Remarks
   4. Other Notable Attendants
      1. Theosophy and Madame Blavatsky
      2. William Aldrich and Josephine Cables
      3. Elliott and Emily Coues
      4. Charlotte Smith
3. The World's Fair
   1. General Works
   2. African Americans at the Fair
4. Women at the World's Fair
   1. General Works
   2. Bertha Palmer and the Isabella Club
   3. Clara Foltz, Laura Gordon, and Clara Colby
   4. The Women's Congresses
   5. Participation in the Other Auxiliary Congresses
5. Post-Fair Suffrage Campaigns
   1. New York
      1. General Description
      2. New York Constitutional Convention
         1. Explaining Choate's Change in Position
         2. Interview with Stanleyetta Titus on Winning the Vote at the Convention
   2. California
      1. General Description
      2. Foltz and Other Women Suffragists
6. Victory in California -- 1911
   1. The Suffrage Campaign
   2. Lillian Coffin and Katherine Edson

Chapter Seven

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