19th Century Women

Erminnia Adele Platt Smith

Erminnie A. Platt Smith on Asking Questions

In: 19th Century Women, Science

Tagged: Anthropologist, Ethnographer, Geologist, Iroquois

Erminnie Adele Smith (April 26, 1836– June 9, 1886) wasRead More →

Helen Hamilton Gardener

Helen Hamilton Gardner on the Power of Fiction

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

Tagged: 19th amendment, Free Thought, Lecturer, Novelists, Sexual inequality, Women's suffrage

Helen Hamilton Gardener, née Alice Chenoweth, (January 21, 1852 toRead More →

Dr. Henrietta Hyde, biologist

Ida Henrietta Hyde on Getting a Degree

In: 19th Century Women, Science, Women's Rights

Tagged: Advanced Degrees, Biology, Female Education, Public Health

Educator, biologist, public health and women’s rights advocate Ida HenriettaRead More →

Vinnie Ream on Art and Nature

In: 19th Century Women, Artists

Tagged: Abraham Lincoln, American artist, Art, Civil War, Gilded Age, Scupture

American sculptor, Vinnie Ream (1847*-1914), was the first woman andRead More →

Harriet Hosmer, Sculptor

Harriet Hosmer on Sculpture vs Painting

In: 19th Century Women, Artists

Tagged: Sculptors

Long forgotten, American sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908) successfully challenged theRead More →

Ida C. Craddock

Ida C. Craddock on Comstockery

In: 19th Century Women, Activists, Authors, Spiritualism, Women's Rights

Tagged: Anthony Comstock, Banned Books, Comstock Act, Female Education, sex education

In honor of Banned Books Week, I am sharing moreRead More →

Jane Grey Swisshelm

Jane Grey Swisshelm on Congressional Behavior

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Activists, Authors, Civil War, Journalists, Women's Rights, Writing

Tagged: Compromise of 1850, Congressional reporting, Slavery

JANE GREY SWISSHELM (December 6, 1815 -July 22, 1884) wasRead More →

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 →

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 →