Lydia Maria Child
American writer whose 1825 novel, “The Rebels, a Tale of the Revolution,” was very popular.
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Jane Grey Swisshelm
American journalist, anti-slavery agitator and war nurse
Abigail Hopper Gibbons
American philanthropist
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
One of the great poets of England.
Mary Louise Booth
American journalist and translator of important French works.
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson
Author and war-time lecturer
Mary Ashton Livermore
Journalist, Philanthropist, and Lecturer
Frances E Willard
Frances E. Willard (1839-1898) was an American educator, suffragist and temperance reformer.
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Famously referred to as “the woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time,” author, activist, and lecturer Matilda Joslyn Gage worked tirelessly to advocate for abolition, women’s rights, and Native American rights.
Elizabeth Packard
After defending her sanity at trial in 1864, Packard campaigned to ensure the rights of the mentally ill as well as those of married women. She publicized the story of her hospitalization at the hands of her husband in order to prevent the abuse and neglect of others vulnerable before the law.