Pauline Hopkins
Novelist Pauline Hopkins (1856-1930) edited The Colored American from 1900 to 1904; her goal was to publish a journal devoted to “the development of Afro-American art and literature.”
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Maria Susanna Cummins
Maria Cummins was a writer whose most popular novel, The Lamplighter, was published in 1854.
Mary Antin
Belarussian-American author and immigration rights activist.
Louise Chandler Moulton
Author, critic, correspondent, and hostess to literary notables of her day
Dorothy West
Harlem Renaissance novelist
Ednah Dow Cheney
American activist who worked tirelessly for women’s rights, especially suffrage and the abolition of slavery.
Eliza Lee Cabot Follen
Best known for her anti-slavery writings including Anti-Slavery Hymns and Songs and A Letter to Mothers in Free States.
Evelyn Shakir
Evelyn Shakir was a scholar, author, and professor specializing in Arab American literature.
Sophie de Condorcet
French intellectual and advocate for the downtrodden
Susanna Haswell Rowson
British playwright, actress and bestselling novelist