These volumes are affectionately inscribed to the memory of Mary Wollstonecraft, Frances Wright, Lucretia Mott, Harriet Martineau, Lydia Marie Child, Margaret Fuller, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Josephine S. Griffing [sic], Martha C. Wright, Harriot [sic] K. Hunt, M.D., Mariana W. Johnson, Alice and Phebe [sic] Carey, Ann Preston, M.D., Lydia Mott, Eliza W. Farnham, Lydia F. Fowler, M.D., [and] Paulina Wright Davis, whose earnest lives and fearless words, in demanding political rights for women, have been, in the preparation of these pages, a constant inspiration to the editors.