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Annie Hall Strong

Annie Hall Strong’s life showed how Seattle became the gateway city to Alaska during the gold rush.

Elizabeth Ogilvie

American author who wrote fiction and children’s books

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.

Henrietta O’Neill

1700s Irish poet, hostess, and patron of the arts

Helen S Rush

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”.

Ann Cooper Whitall

Patriot of the American Revolution

Ann Cotton

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

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.

Asenath Nicholson

1800s Irish traveller and social reformer