Blog – Page 2 – Joan Koster

Anna Cora Mowatt

Anna Cora Mowatt on Acting

In: 19th Century Women, Actresses, Authors, Playwrights

Tagged: acting, New York aristocracy, Novelists, preservation work

American author, playwright, and actress, Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie (1819–1870),Read More →

Dr. Anna Elizabeth Broomall

Anna Elizabeth Broomall on Episiotomy

In: 19th Century Women, Activists, Medicine, Motherhood, Women's Rights

Tagged: Antiseptics, Obstetrics, Physician, Pregnancy, Women's Health, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania

Anna Elizabeth Broomall (1847-1913) suffered name-calling, spit wads, and theRead More →

Elizabeth F. Ellet American writer

Elizabeth Fries Ellet on Women’s Art

In: 19th Century Women, Authors, Playwrights, Poets, Writing

Tagged: Edgar Allen Poe, Literary Criticism, Scandal, Women Artists

Throughout history, many important accomplishments by women have been overshadowedRead More →

Alice Moore Hubbard

Alice Moore Hubbard on Romance

In: 20th Century Women, Activists, Women's Rights

Tagged: arts & craft movement, Author, education, Roycroft, Suffragette

A bold feminist, suffragette, and writer, Alice Moore Hubbard (1861Read More →

Nannie Helen Burroughs

Nannie Helen Burroughs on Voting

In: 20th Century Women, Activists, Education, Women's Rights

Tagged: African American History, Female Education, National Training School

Nannie Helen Burroughs (May 2, 1879 – May 20, 1961)Read More →

Dorothy Levitt

Dorothy Levitt on Maps

In: 19th Century Women, 20th Century Women, Authors, Sports

Tagged: Race Car Driving

Called the “Fastest Girl on Earth”‘ and the “Champion LadyRead More →

Colonial era black woman

Ann Plato on Benevolence

In: 19th Century Women, Authors, Poets

Tagged: African American writer, Female Education

The women most often forgotten are those who come fromRead More →

Harriet Martineau

Harriet Martineau on American Women

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Activists, Authors, Education, Journalists, Women's Rights

Tagged: British writer, democracy, Novelists, Sociologist

Meet the woman who sold more novels than Charles Dickens.Read More →

Maud Allan Dancer

Maud Allan on Art is Long

In: 20th Century Women, Actresses, Artists, Women's Rights

Tagged: Dance, lesbianism, Woman's Rights

I am sure you have heard of the Dance ofRead More →

Mary Putnam Jacobi

Mary Putnam Jacobi on Self-Confidence

In: 19th Century Women, Education, Medicine

When I was in high school, girls who had theirRead More →

Josephina St. Pierre Ruffin

Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin on Congenial Souls

In: 19th Century Women, Civil War, Journalists, Women's Rights

Tagged: American Civil War, Slavery, Suffrage, Women's Clubs

Born in Boston, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin (1842-1924) grew upRead More →

The Westbrook Drives

Henrietta Payne Westbrook on Marriage

In: 19th Century Women, Activists, Authors, Medicine

Tagged: Free Love, Marriage, Woman's Rights

Henrietta Payne Westbrook (1834-1909) was a physician, reporter ,and author,Read More →