The text that I have been investigating at the Lilly Library is Besant's "Is the Bible Indictable". What interested me most in this pamphlet was how Besant drew upon Christian values to make her argument that if the Bible can be published under current law than medical document should be published too. I am interested to see how other author's we have read have drawn upon Christian concepts in order to make their own arguments. In order to show how other women have drawn on Christian ideology to make various claims I will examine Fuller's Woman in the Nineteenth Century as well as Grimke's "An Appeal to the Christian Women of the South". My thesis will most likely be something like "Many women authors have called upon their audiences to make changes due to obligations as a Christian". For example, Besant calls upon her readers to object to the ruling that any book considered to excite its reader can be condemned, since under the current law the Bible can be indicted as well. Fuller reminds her readers that God created woman for man, but that man was not meant to be her master. Grimke informs her readers that slavery is a sin and that as good Christians they must speak out against it.

I think Killingsworth's "An Appeal to Times" will be an especially useful secondary source because the authors I focus on all appear to be writing as if addressing a crisis of the times. I also think that Campbell's idea of a feminine style will be useful in analyzing these texts. She writes that women were often considered to be morally superior to men and that this morality often manifested itself in the works of women authors. I also think that her idea of consciousness raising plays an important role in the texts I will investigate by Besant, Fuller, and Grimke.