The Gerritsen Collection – Trial
Our trial of The Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs will be of interest to anyone researching women’s history in the world.
Started by the Dutch physician and feminist Aletta Jacobs and her husband C.V. Gerritsen and continued by other curators this collection brings together books, pamphlets and periodicals reflecting the revolution of a feminist consciousness and the movement for women’s rights. The primary source material covers the period 1543 to 1945 and includes items from the UK, the U.S., Canada and New Zealand.
Titles include the journals The Suffragist (1913-21) and The Women’s Protest Against Woman Suffrage (1912-18) and monographs such as Carrie Chapman Catt’s Ought Women to Have Votes for Members of Parliament? (1879), as well as Anti-Suffrage Essays by Massachusetts Women (1916).
The trial is available until 11th December and can be accessed via the following link:
The Gerritsen Collection
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