SOURCE: A review of History of Woman Suffrage, in The Nation, Vol. XXXIII, No. 844, September 1, 1881, pp. 177-78.

In the following review, the critic offers a mostly negative assessment of History of Woman Suffrage.

There is force in the objection which has been brought against [History of Woman Suffrage], that as woman suffrage is not achieved it has no history. But, on the other hand, it may be said that in some of the Territories women are allowed to vote at all elections, and in several States for school officers, and that the tendency is unmistakably towards the political equality of the sexes. If, therefore, a work like this could show the inception of the agitation, describe the opposition overcome, record the successive triumphs and their intervals, and leave on the reader's mind a cumulative impression of invincibility, it would need no justification, for it would undoubtedly hasten the...