Sylvia Beach
In addition to owning and running the “bookshop and lending library, Shakespeare and Company,” Beach spent her time advocating and networking for the writers and friends that were loyal to her shop.
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Alice Stone Blackwell
American suffraigst and writer
Gertrude Campbell
Irish writer, journalist, and critic
Emma Louise Ashford
American musician and composer
Annie Jenness Miller
American dress reformer, author, publisher and lecturer
Emily Faithfull
English philanthropist who took a great interest in the conditions of working women
Mary Louise Booth
American journalist and translator of important French works.
Helen Marot
American labor leader
Margaret Sangster
She became one of the popular American poets in the period following the Civil War, and her poems “Elizabeth Aged Nine,” and “Are the Children at Home?” were known the country over.
Sarah Josepha Hale
Poet, Sarah Josepha Hale is best known for creating the nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” However, her work extends far beyond her writing. Her influence can be seen in historic sites and a famous national holiday still widely celebrated today.