Janet Lindenmuth
@janetlindenmuth.bsky.social
Law librarian at Delaware Law School. Delaware history, legal and otherwise. Also researching women in the suffrage movement. Ruza Wenclawski bio https://medium.com/@JanetLindenmuth/ruza-wenclawska-suffragist-labor-organizer-poet-and-actor-58e312de4046
F Supp is not a person. It's a citation for a law reporter -- Federal Supplement.
November 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
F Supp is not a person. It's a citation for a law reporter -- Federal Supplement.
Make dazzle painting great again!
September 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Make dazzle painting great again!
There are hundreds of paintings sold online attributed to the artist Caroline Burnet. But she probably never painted any of them. Who was Caroline Currie Burnet? medium.com/@JanetLinden...
June 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
There are hundreds of paintings sold online attributed to the artist Caroline Burnet. But she probably never painted any of them. Who was Caroline Currie Burnet? medium.com/@JanetLinden...
I totally forgot about this, the most obscure Delaware legal research rabbit hole I ever went down. And I never found the thesis. Do you have a copy of Wolcott, James L., The Development of the Delaware Corporation Law, unpublished thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration 1931?
June 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I totally forgot about this, the most obscure Delaware legal research rabbit hole I ever went down. And I never found the thesis. Do you have a copy of Wolcott, James L., The Development of the Delaware Corporation Law, unpublished thesis, Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration 1931?
Bertha Berglin Moller was born in Sweden and immigrated to Minnesota. She was active in the suffrage movement first in Minnesota. In 1918 and 1919 she became a stalwart White House picket and was arrested 11 times and served two prison sentences.
April 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Bertha Berglin Moller was born in Sweden and immigrated to Minnesota. She was active in the suffrage movement first in Minnesota. In 1918 and 1919 she became a stalwart White House picket and was arrested 11 times and served two prison sentences.
Sallie Topkis Ginns was born in Russia and came to the United States with her family at age 2. She was treasurer of the Delaware branch of the Congressional Union/National Woman's Party and attended many NWP events in Washington, D.C. including a 1916 march and protest at the Capitol.
April 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Sallie Topkis Ginns was born in Russia and came to the United States with her family at age 2. She was treasurer of the Delaware branch of the Congressional Union/National Woman's Party and attended many NWP events in Washington, D.C. including a 1916 march and protest at the Capitol.
More immigrant suffragists! Anna Ginsberg was born in Lithuania and came to the United States when she was a child. She was working as a typist for the radical magazine The Masses when she was arrested at the final "watchfire" protest in Lafayette Square where President Wilson was burned in effigy.
March 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
More immigrant suffragists! Anna Ginsberg was born in Lithuania and came to the United States when she was a child. She was working as a typist for the radical magazine The Masses when she was arrested at the final "watchfire" protest in Lafayette Square where President Wilson was burned in effigy.
Margaret Hinchey immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1892. She spoke across the U.S. in favor of women’s suffrage and was an organizer for the New York Women’s Suffrage Party. She was a laundry worker and labor activist who spent 30 days in jail for picketing during a hatmakers strike.
March 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Margaret Hinchey immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1892. She spoke across the U.S. in favor of women’s suffrage and was an organizer for the New York Women’s Suffrage Party. She was a laundry worker and labor activist who spent 30 days in jail for picketing during a hatmakers strike.
Melinda Scott was 20 when she came to the United States from England in 1896. She spoke as a working woman in favor of women’s suffrage. Primarily a labor activist, she was a leader of the Organized Hat Trimmers of Newark, New Jersey and the Women’s Trade Union League of New York.
March 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Melinda Scott was 20 when she came to the United States from England in 1896. She spoke as a working woman in favor of women’s suffrage. Primarily a labor activist, she was a leader of the Organized Hat Trimmers of Newark, New Jersey and the Women’s Trade Union League of New York.
Rose Schneiderman came to the United States from Poland in 1890 at the age of 8. She was one of the founders of the Wage Earner’s League for Woman Suffrage. She was an officer of the Women’s Trade Union League and a leader of garment workers strikes, including the 1909 Uprising of the 20,000.
March 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Rose Schneiderman came to the United States from Poland in 1890 at the age of 8. She was one of the founders of the Wage Earner’s League for Woman Suffrage. She was an officer of the Women’s Trade Union League and a leader of garment workers strikes, including the 1909 Uprising of the 20,000.
Born in Poland, Ruza Wenclawska was a baby when she immigrated to the United States in 1887. She spoke against the Democrats and the Wilson administration. In 1917 she was arrested for picketing at the White House and sentenced to 7 months in jail, where she joined Alice Paul in a hunger strike.
March 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Born in Poland, Ruza Wenclawska was a baby when she immigrated to the United States in 1887. She spoke against the Democrats and the Wilson administration. In 1917 she was arrested for picketing at the White House and sentenced to 7 months in jail, where she joined Alice Paul in a hunger strike.
4 of the 5 women with this suffrage banner at a February 1914 working women’s march on the White House were immigrants: Ruza Wenclawska (Poland), Rose Schneiderman (Poland), Melinda Scott (England) and Margaret Hinchey (Ireland).
March 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
4 of the 5 women with this suffrage banner at a February 1914 working women’s march on the White House were immigrants: Ruza Wenclawska (Poland), Rose Schneiderman (Poland), Melinda Scott (England) and Margaret Hinchey (Ireland).
The only other description I can find, from the New York Herald, says it was "painted in violent greens."
March 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The only other description I can find, from the New York Herald, says it was "painted in violent greens."
This description of Lydia Gibson's missing portrait of Ruza Wenclawska makes me want to find it even more. "The hardest looking egg in the show, packing a knockout wallop in both fists." It's from a 3/12/1922 Brooklyn Eagle article on the Society of Independent Artists show where it was exhibited.
March 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
This description of Lydia Gibson's missing portrait of Ruza Wenclawska makes me want to find it even more. "The hardest looking egg in the show, packing a knockout wallop in both fists." It's from a 3/12/1922 Brooklyn Eagle article on the Society of Independent Artists show where it was exhibited.
She also spoke for the right of working women to spend their money as they saw fit, including on beauty and small luxuries.
March 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
She also spoke for the right of working women to spend their money as they saw fit, including on beauty and small luxuries.
This is a great article. Rose Winslow/Ruza Wenclawska often used the same "bread and roses" rhetoric.
March 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This is a great article. Rose Winslow/Ruza Wenclawska often used the same "bread and roses" rhetoric.
Stop spying on me New York Times Style Magazine.
March 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Stop spying on me New York Times Style Magazine.
In the 1970s our founding Dean probably pulled this incomplete set of transfer binders out of a DC dumpster. And now it’s sadly going back to a dumpster.
February 17, 2025 at 9:19 PM
In the 1970s our founding Dean probably pulled this incomplete set of transfer binders out of a DC dumpster. And now it’s sadly going back to a dumpster.
Found some good stuff in the Harriet Stanton Blatch papers at the Library of Congress. It’s Ruza at Coney Island!
January 25, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Found some good stuff in the Harriet Stanton Blatch papers at the Library of Congress. It’s Ruza at Coney Island!
The Delaware section at the law library of congress. They assured me they have more in storage.
January 25, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The Delaware section at the law library of congress. They assured me they have more in storage.
Mabel Vernon on how to pronounce Inez Milholland's first name. Ee-nez
January 22, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Mabel Vernon on how to pronounce Inez Milholland's first name. Ee-nez
Plute has made a bit of a comeback recently, but it was very popular with early 20th century labor activists, particularly the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies. Ruza used it in a speech on Labor Day, 1915 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
December 29, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Plute has made a bit of a comeback recently, but it was very popular with early 20th century labor activists, particularly the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies. Ruza used it in a speech on Labor Day, 1915 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
I've learned a lot of early 20th century slang researching Ruza Wenclawska so I'm going to share it with you.
December 29, 2024 at 2:36 PM
I've learned a lot of early 20th century slang researching Ruza Wenclawska so I'm going to share it with you.
What were Ruza Wenclawska/Rose Winslow's speeches like? Here's the text of one she gave in Nanticoke PA in 1915. drive.google.com/file/d/1Efhg...
November 30, 2024 at 8:33 PM
What were Ruza Wenclawska/Rose Winslow's speeches like? Here's the text of one she gave in Nanticoke PA in 1915. drive.google.com/file/d/1Efhg...
Ruza Wenclawska/Rose Winslow "the cyclone orator of the Cause" is the central figure in this 1915 political cartoon featuring events during the women's suffrage liberty bell tour visit to the Scranton, Pennsylvania area. Notice she is wearing the same outfit she wears in her most famous photograph.
November 24, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Ruza Wenclawska/Rose Winslow "the cyclone orator of the Cause" is the central figure in this 1915 political cartoon featuring events during the women's suffrage liberty bell tour visit to the Scranton, Pennsylvania area. Notice she is wearing the same outfit she wears in her most famous photograph.