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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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.

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Helen Spence Federer

Helen Spence Federer (1911-1983) was an astronomer who worked at the Harvard College Observatory in various capacities from approximately 1941-1962.

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Fanny Goldstein

As the first Jewish woman to become a branch librarian in Massachusetts, Fanny Goldstein (1895-1961) was also collector and bibliographer of Judaica for the Boston Public Library.

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Dorothy Cridland

In 1951 she was one of the earliest women to be elected as an Associate of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers and went to work for them from 1955-63 as a technical editor, despite her lack of formal technical qualifications.

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Anne Newport Royall

Her four-page weekly newspaper, Paul Pry, later the Huntress, ran for twenty-five years and was described as a forerunner of the modern Washington gossip columns.

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