Lydia Maria Child
American writer whose 1825 novel, “The Rebels, a Tale of the Revolution,” was very popular.
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Jane Grey Swisshelm
American journalist, anti-slavery agitator and war nurse
Fanny Kemble
English actress and author
Abigail Hopper Gibbons
American philanthropist
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One of the great poets of England.
Mary Louise Booth
American journalist and translator of important French works.
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
Author and war-time lecturer
Mary Ashton Livermore
Journalist, Philanthropist, and Lecturer
Frances E Willard
Frances E. Willard (1839-1898) was an American educator, suffragist and temperance reformer.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Famously referred to as “the woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time,” author, activist, and lecturer Matilda Joslyn Gage worked tirelessly to advocate for abolition, women’s rights, and Native American rights.