Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges (1748β1793) was an intellectual of her time, writer, political figure, and perhaps among the first true feminist activists.
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Frances Wright
First woman to write a serious book about America; first person to set up an experimental colony, Nashoba near Memphis, with the object of enabling enslaved people to work for their freedom; first woman to co-edit a newspaper in America, first female public orator in America.
Mary Prince
British abolitionist and memoirist
Alice Stone Blackwell
American suffraigst and writer
Lydia Maria Child
American writer whose 1825 novel, βThe Rebels, a Tale of the Revolution,β was very popular.
Jane Grey Swisshelm
American journalist, anti-slavery agitator and war nurse
Abigail Hopper Gibbons
American philanthropist
Fanny Kemble
English actress and author
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One of the great poets of England.
Mary Louise Booth
American journalist and translator of important French works.