Mary Church Terrell on Standing for Suffrage
2020-09-28
Mary Ellen Church Terrell (1864-1954) is known as the Mother of African American suffrage. Read More →
Helena Swanwick on War & Peace
2020-08-23
Helena Swanwick was a feminist, peace activist, and journalist. Read More →
Mary Hunter Austin on Observing the Desert
2020-08-09
Mary Hunter Austin was a feminist, naturalist, and prolithic writer.Read More →
Catherine Beecher on Exercise
2020-05-26
“Woman’s great mission is to train immature, weak, and ignorantRead More →
Anne Hampton Brewster on My Novel
2020-05-15
Anne Hampton Brewster was a poet, author and one of the first women correspondents.Read More →
Adah Issacs Menken on Working and Waiting
2019-11-18
Adah Issacs Menken was a Civil War era actress, sex symbol, and pin-up girl. Read More →
Virginia Penny On Women’s Work
2019-09-16
Virginia Penny (1826-1913) was a pioneer in the study of women’s labor.Read More →
Rose Winslow on Starving for the Vote
2019-08-26
“God knows we don’t want other women ever to haveRead More →
Sojourner Truth in Her Own Words
2019-07-01
Which is more important – the words or how theyRead More →
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper on Racial Uplift
2019-05-26
“I ask no monument, proud and high to arrest theRead More →
Ada Goodrich Freer on Hauntings
2019-05-19
From Ghosts to Palestine Many 19th century women turned toRead More →