Benneson, Cora A.

Biographical Chapter

Articles

First Women Lawyers in the United States
By C. Sleeth
A short biography of the first woman lawyer of each state in the U.S.

Women Lawyers in the United States
By Lelia J. Robinson, LL.B.
2 GreenBag 10 (1890)

Making History: Lelia Robinson's Index to American Women Lawyers
["Introduction to Women Lawyers in the United States"] PDF | HTML
by Profesor Barbara Allen Babcock
Stanford Law School (July 1998)

All the Allies of Each: Lelia Robinson's Portrait of Early Women Lawyers in America
by Julia Steele

"Admission of Women to the Bar"
Edited by Catharine V. Waite
Chicago Legal Times, 1887

Extracts from book "Angels and Amazons: A Hundred Years of American Women"
(short extract regarding various early american women lawyers)
by Inez Haynes Irwin
Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Garden City, NY. 1933

Cora Agnes Benneson (1851-1919)
Early Illinois Women

Bibliography

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