Célia Bertin
Célia Bertin was recruited to help Allied aviators hidden in Occupied Paris because of her ability to speak English. In 1993 she published a study of women during this period, Femmes sous l’Occupation.
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Beryl Robinson
Beryl Robinson (1906-89) introduced storytelling to children in Boston Public Library branches all over the city in the 1940s and 1950s. Her stories came from many cultures. In 1958-59, she produced and told stories on public television.
Pauline Hopkins
Novelist Pauline Hopkins (1856-1930) edited The Colored American from 1900 to 1904; her goal was to publish a journal devoted to “the development of Afro-American art and literature.”
Louise Chandler Moulton
Author, critic, correspondent, and hostess to literary notables of her day
Maria Susanna Cummins
Maria Cummins was a writer whose most popular novel, The Lamplighter, was published in 1854.
Mary Antin
Belarussian-American author and immigration rights activist.
Dorothy West
Harlem Renaissance novelist
Ednah Dow Cheney
American activist who worked tirelessly for women’s rights, especially suffrage and the abolition of slavery.
Eliza Lee Cabot Follen
Best known for her anti-slavery writings including Anti-Slavery Hymns and Songs and A Letter to Mothers in Free States.
Evelyn Shakir
Evelyn Shakir was a scholar, author, and professor specializing in Arab American literature.