Experiencing Women’s History as a Documentary Editor

This is a modest revision of a paper written for a panel on the past and future of historical editing at the annual meeting of the Association for Documentary Editing in 2008. I thank Esther Katz for reading it in my stead. Richard Leffler edited the original and made valuable recommendations. This list of the women whose papers have received editorial treatment is not an exhaustive one. For Addams, see The Jane Addams Papers [microfilm] , ed. Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1984), and The Selected Papers of Jane Addams, eds. Mary Lynn McCree Bryan, Barbara Bair, and Maree de Angury (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003–). For Willard, see note 12 below, and for Thomas, see note 6. For Anthony, see The Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony [microfilm], eds. Patricia G. Holland and Ann D. Gordon (Wilmington, Del.: Scholarly Resources, 1991), and The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, ed. Ann D. Gordon (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1997–). See also The Letters of Jessie Benton Frémont, eds. Pamela Herr and Mary Lee Spence (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1993)