Mary Antin
Belarussian-American author and immigration rights activist.
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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.
Anne Whitney
American sculptor who received prestigious commissions for monuments across the country.
Annie Adams Fields
Annie Adams Fields hosted an influential literary salon in Boston and supported many women writers and engaged in significant charitable work.
Although the home of Annie Adams Fields (1834-1915) and her husband, publisher James T. Fields, at the end of Charles Street, does not survive, it was the site of their important literary salon. After his death in 1881, Annie Fields continued to support the work of many women writers, including Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) who spent winters with her, poet Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920) and Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96). Fields was also active in charitable works. She spent many hours at the Charity House on Chardon Street and co-founded the Cooperative Society of Visitors, a case review agency that made recommendations to the central administration of Boston’s relief organizations for aid disbursement. The Society was absorbed into the Associated Charities of Boston. Fields’ book How to Help the Poor (1884) served as an unofficial guide to the programs and policies of Associated Charities.
Susanna Haswell Rowson
British playwright, actress and bestselling novelist
Sylvia Plath
American poet and novelist.
Emmy Destinn
Czech operatic soprano
Edna Brush Perkins
Social reformer, women’s rights activist, painter and poet
Dr Marie Reay
Australian anthropologist best known for her research in the highlands of Papua New Guinea, most notably among the Kuma.