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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.

By standardizing measurements in her recipes, Farmer guaranteed her readers reliable results. The Fannie Farmer Cookbook became a classic kitchen text. Still widely available, the cookbook remains a popular home cooking reference.

Anne Whitney

American sculptor who received prestigious commissions for monuments across the country.

Annie Adams Fields

Annie Adams Fields hosted an influential literary salon in Boston and supported many women writers and engaged in significant charitable work.

Although the home of Annie Adams Fields (1834-1915) and her husband, publisher James T. Fields, at the end of Charles Street, does not survive, it was the site of their important literary salon. After his death in 1881, Annie Fields continued to support the work of many women writers, including Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) who spent winters with her, poet Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920) and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96). Fields was also active in charitable works. She spent many hours at the Charity House on Chardon Street and co-founded the Cooperative Society of Visitors, a case review agency that made recommendations to the central administration of Boston’s relief organizations for aid disbursement. The Society was absorbed into the Associated Charities of Boston. Fields’ book How to Help the Poor (1884) served as an unofficial guide to the programs and policies of Associated Charities.

Ann Telnaes

In 2001 Ann Telnaes became the second woman ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning.

Sophie de Condorcet

French intellectual and advocate for the downtrodden

Missouri T B Hanna

The “Mother of Journalism” in Washington.

Sue Bailey Thurman

Sue Bailey Thurman (1903-1996) founded the Museum of African American History in 1963

Susan Paul

In the 1830s, Susan Paul (1809-41) taught at the Smith School on Joy Street, a segregated school for African American children funded jointly by the city and private donations. Paul was also an officer in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society.