Mansfield, Arabella Babb (Belle)

Biographical Chapter

Belle A. Mansfield: Opening the Way for Others
By Teresa Federer (2002)

Articles

15 Years of Advocacy: Women and the Law Time Line, 1619-1998
by Lisa Small

A Timeline of Women's Legal History in the United States
by Professor Cunnea and Lisa Small

A Century of Achievement: The Centennial of the National Association of Women Lawyers
by Selma Moidel Smith
85 Women Lawyers Journal 2 (Summer 1999)
*Originally printed as two articles: "...The First 50 Years,"9 Experience 1 (Fall 1998), and "...The Second 50 Years,"9 Experience 2 (Winter 1999)

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

Arabella Mansfield: Pioneer lawyer 1846-1911
by Tom Longden

The Founding of the Washington College of Law: The First Law School Established by Women for Women
by Mary L. Clark
This draft was edited and appears in 47 American University Law Review 613 (1998)

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.

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

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)

Opening Law to Women. In Women in the American Economy: A Documentary History, 1675 to 1929,
Brownlee, W.E., Brownlee, M.M., New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, pp. 288 - 296 (1976).

Strong-Minded Women: The Emergence of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in Iowa.
Noun, Louise R., The Iowa State University Press.: Ames, Iowa (1969).

The Invisible Bar: The Woman Lawyer in America 1638 to the Present.
Morello, K. B., .New York : Random House (1986).

"Women Lawyers" (Regarding Admission of Mrs. B.A. Mansfield)
Woman's Journal (Boston), April 22, 1876

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

"Women Bar Members Will Honor Pioneer: Miss Maddox First Woman to Practice Law in State"
by Margaret Demsey
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