Elizabeth Hedge Webster
Elizabeth Hedge Webster (1822-1897) was a supporter of women’s suffrage and the author of Clover Blossoms, a book of essays and short pieces, published in 1880.
Elizabeth Hedge Webster (1822-1897) was a supporter of women’s suffrage and the author of Clover Blossoms, a book of essays and short pieces, published in 1880.
1700s Irish poet, hostess, and patron of the arts
Sisters Helen S. Rush (1900-1985) and Mary Sherkanowski (1902-1987) ran a boarding house at 22 Monument Square in Boston. They wrote about their adventures in the 1952 book “Rooms to Let”.
Patriot of the American Revolution
Ann Cotton wrote one of the earliest personal accounts of Bacon’s Rebellion (1676–1677).
Anna Maria Mead Chalmers authored numerous children’s books in the 1830s, later wrote short works of fiction and devotion, and contributed to the Boston Home Journal, the New York Churchman, the New York Tribune, and the Southern Literary Messenger.
Annie Henry Christian was the sister of Patrick Henry and an early settler of the Virginia backcountry, and eventually Kentucky, who wrote the best first-person account of that era of westward migration that survives from any woman.
1800s Irish traveller and social reformer
Well-known Cleveland book reviewer and lecturer.
Though all of her twenty books are set in Georgia (US) or concern southerners living elsewhere, Anne Rivers Siddons was best known for books about Atlanta and its environs.