Alice Stone Blackwell
American suffraigst and writer
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Gertrude Campbell
Irish writer, journalist, and critic
Emma Louise Ashford
American musician and composer
Annie Jenness Miller
American dress reformer, author, publisher and lecturer
Dorothy Wordsworth
English writer
Emily Faithfull
English philanthropist who took a great interest in the conditions of working women
Myra Bradwell
The first woman in America to ask for admission to the bar having studied law with her husband. On being refused she went to work, with the aid of her husband, to secure the passage of a law making it possible for women to practice in the courts of Illinois. She was years later, without solicitation, admitted on her original application. She was the first woman made a member of the Illinois Bar and Press Associations. She established the Legal News, a recognized legal authority.
Mary Louise Booth
American journalist and translator of important French works.
Helen Marot
American labor leader
Margaret Sangster
She became one of the popular American poets in the period following the Civil War, and her poems “Elizabeth Aged Nine,” and “Are the Children at Home?” were known the country over.