Passionate about women’s rights and the cause of peace, Vroland was also a humanitarian with strong views on the treatment of Australia’s Aboriginal population; she became one of Victoria’s leading campaigners for Aboriginal rights.
Blind song writer who wrote more than 2500 hymns besides many secular songs, cantatas, and lyrical productions of various kinds.
English critic of American domestic life
English writer, translator, and philanthropist.
English author and prolific writer of the Victorian era who produced about 120 volumes, including novels, tales, school manuals, histories and biographies.
Better known as Miss Mulock, an English novelist.
Journalist and serial writer known as Grace Greenwood
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Mina A. Ellis, a Canadian explorer and author, born at Bewdly, Ontario, and graduated at the Brooklyn, N,Y. Training School for Nurses. She became superintendent of the Virginia Hospital, Richmond, Va., and in 1901 married Leonidas Hubbard, a journalist and explorer who perished in Labrador in 1903.
After his death she organized an expedition which in 1905 successfully crossed the northeastern part of the Labrador Peninsula with the object of completing Hubbard’s work. She made many interesting discoveries, and was the first white person to cross the Great Divide between the Naskaupi and George Rivers. On returning to the United States she gave an account of her journey to the American Geographical Society, and in 1908 published A Woman’s Way through Unknown Labrador.
English author and linguist
From Famous Women: An Outline of Feminine Achievement Through the Ages With Life Stories of Five Hundred Noted Women. Written by Joseph Adelman, published 1926 by Ellis M Lonow Company:
Martha Joanna Reade Lamb, an American historian, born at Plainfield, Mass. She was married to Charles A. Lamb in 1852, and after some years’ residence in the West, removed to New York in 1866 where she became a favorite socially.
Mrs. Lamb was secretary of the first Sanitary Fair and held membership in many learned societies.
From 1883 till her death she edited the Magazine of American History, in which she published many of her own essays. Her chief book, the History of the City of New York (two volumes, 1877 – 1881), was the valuable result of about fifteen years of patient labor and research.
Other volumes worthy of mention are The Homes of America and Wall Street in History.