Sarah Bagley
While much of her life remains surrounded by questions, the record of Bagley’s experiences as a worker and activist in Lowell, Massachusetts reveals a remarkable spirit.
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Harriet Hanson Robinson
In 1881 Harriet Hanson Robinson became one of the founders of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Woman Suffrage Association
Dr Maude Abbott
In 1936, Dr. Maude Abbott invented an international classification system for congenital heart disease, which became the definitive reference guide to the subject.
Caroline Blackwood
Irish writer
Elizabeth Emmet Lenox-Conyngham
Irish poet and translator
Anita Leslie
Irish biographer
Elizabeth Dillon
British diarist
Emily Tapscott Clark
Emily Tapscott Clark was a writer and the founding editor of The Reviewer, a literary magazine that helped spark the Southern Literary Renaissance—a movement in southern letters that turned away from glorifying the Old South in sentimental narratives and instead moved toward writing about themes of race, gender, identity, and the burden of history in the South.
Sarah Patton Boyle
Sarah-Patton Boyle was one of Virginia’s most prominent white civil rights activists during the 1950s and 1960s and author of the widely acclaimed autobiography The Desegregated Heart: A Virginian’s Stand in Time of Transition (1962).
Bethany Veney
Bethany Veney was an enslaved woman who, prior to the American Civil War (1861–1865), lived in the Shenandoah Valley and, in 1889, published The Narrative of Bethany Veney, a Slave Woman.