APPENDIX B
ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SOURCES CONSULTED
Babcock, Barbara Allen, "Clara Shortridge Foltz: Constitution-Maker," 66 Indiana Law Journal 849 (Fall, 1991).
Babcock, Barbara Allen, "Clara Shortridge Foltz: 'First Woman,'" 28 Valparaiso University Law Review 1231 (Summer 1994).
Babcock, Barbara Allen, First Woman: The Life of Clara Shortridge Foltz, "Chapter Two: Counsellor at Law (1880-1885)" (draft on file with the author, 1997).
Babcock documents the first five years of Foltz' career as an attorney, including the locally notorious Wheeler trial in which Foltz argued for the prosecution against Gordon who served on the defense team.
Babcock, Barbara Allen, "Western Women Lawyers," 45 Stanford Law Review 2179 (Jul. 1993).
Braude, Ann, Radical Spirits: Spiritualism and Woman's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America (Beacon Press, 1989).
Chandler, Robert J., "In the Van: Spiritualists as Catalysts for the California Women's Suffrage Movement," 73 California History 188 (Fall 1994).
Chandler describes the connections between the Spiritualists and the woman suffrage movement in California.
Dictionary of American Biography, p. 425 (Scribners, year unknown).
This source was included in the "Clippings" file in the Laura de Force Gordon Collection at the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Drachman, Virginia G., Women Lawyers and the Origins of Professional Identity in America: The Letters of the Equity Club, 1887 to 1890 (University of Michigan Press, 1993).
Drachman, Virginia G., "Women Lawyers and the Quest for Professional Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century America," 99 Michigan Law Review 2414 (Aug. 1990).
Edelman, Susan Scheiber, "'A Red Hot Suffrage Campaign': The Woman Suffrage Cause in California, 1896," California Supreme Court Historical Society Yearbook, Vol. 2 (1995).
Epstein, Sandra P., "Women and Legal Education: The Case of Boalt Hall," 28:3 Pacific Historian 5 (1984).
Gilb, Corrine L., "Laura de Force Gordon," in Notable American Women, 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary, vol. 2, pp. 68-69 (Harvard University Press, 1971).
This is a biographical entry, including sources upon which the entry was based.
Gordon, Laura de Force, The Great Geysers of California (and How to Reach Them). Illustrated (Bacon & Co., San Francisco, 1877).
A travel guide of the Napa Valley, this is the only book published by LDFG. It is held at the Bancroft Library, shelved at F870.G4G7.
Gordon, Laura de Force, "Woman's Sphere from a Woman's Standpoint," in The Congress of Women, Eagle, Mary K.O., ed., pp. 74-76 (International Publishing, Chicago, 1894).
The full text of an address delivered by LDFG to the Congress of Women at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. A collection of portraits, biographies and addresses pertaining to the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, including the full text of a speech written by LDFG.
An Illustrated History of San Joaquin County, California, (Chicago, Lewis Publishing Co., 1890).
This is available several places, including the Stanford University Library Rare Books Special Collection at F868.S17.
Keith, Mary McHenry, "Tribute to Laura De Force Gordon," Progress, May 07, 1907.
"Laura de Force Gordon Correspondence and Papers," Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
This collection contains numerous letters and clippings. The letters are organized alphabetically by last name of the writer. They are most likely the letters that LDFG had in her possession at the time of her death, as they contain many letters written by other people to her. Also included are a small number of letters that LDFG wrote to her family. Lastly, the collection contains a number of newspapers clippings, most without complete identifying information. They are catalogued at BANC MSS 80/108 c.
The National Cyclopędia of American Biography, vol. 2, pp. 235-36 (White & Co., 1921).
This is a biographical entry, indexed under "Gordon, Laura de Force."
Radcliffe College, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women, History of Women's Suffrage, microfilm (New Haven, Conn., 1976).
This series of papers and other documents is currently held at Stanford Green Library on microfilm at N.S. 10299. Its guidebook is shelved at Current Periodicals Guide JK 1896.W6 1990.
San Francisco Alta
Feb. 2, 1876, 1/1: "Women as 'Business Women'. Derogating women moving into male professions."
San Francisco Chronicle
Apr. 7, 1907, 51/2: Death notice of LDFG.
Sanger, Carol, "Curiculum Vitae (Feminae): Biography and Early American Women Lawyers," 46 Stan L. Rev. 1245 (May 1994).
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, Susan B. Anthony, Mathilda J. Gage, and Ida Husted Haprer, eds., History of Women's Suffrage, vols. III-IV (1886, 1902).
This seminal work is available several places, including the Sacramento Central Public Library at R324.3 S792 1969.
Thompson and West, History of San Joaquin County California with Illustrations, (Reproduction) (Howell-North Book, Berkeley, California, 1968).
This is available several places, including the Stanford University Rare Books Special Collection at F868.S17 G5 1968F, and at the California State Library, Sacramento.
Tinkham, George H., A History of Stockton (Hinton & Co., 1880).
This is available several places, including the Stanford University Rare Books Special Collection at F868.S8 T5 1880, and at the California State Library, Sacramento.
The Valley Review (Lodi, California).
"Gone Home" and "In Memoriam," Jan. 9, 1884, 4/1: Obituaries of Catherine D. Allen (mother of LDFG) and John Hazeltine De Force (older brother of LDFG).
The Valley Review was a weekly newspaper owned and editted by Gertie De Force Cluff (sister of LDFG) from 1878-1884. Volumes 4-13 (with some missing issues) are currently on microfilm at the California State Library, California History Room.
Willard, Frances E. and Mary A Livermore, eds., A Woman of the Century, p.327 (Moulton, 1893). This is a biographical entry.
The Woman's Tribune (Portland, OR).
Mar. 30, 1988, 6/4: Summary of women who have become lawyers in the United States.
Mar. 8, 1990, 5/3: Announcement that Clara Foltz was admitted to the United States Supreme Court, noting that LDFG had previously become only the second woman admitted.
May 25, 1907, ?/?: Tribute to LDFG by Clara Bewick Colby upon Laura's death. In the article, Clara quotes nine letters written by Laura to Clara between 1891-1906.
The Woman's Tribune is a periodical which was published at the turn of the century by Clara Bewick Colby. It is currently held at Stanford Green Library on a microfilm series entitled History of Women, N.S. 1508, Reels P230, P231, and P232. The periodical is neither indexed nor on Socrates.