Activists

Margaret Foley American Suffragette

Margaret Foley on Heckling

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

Tagged: American Suffragettes, LBGT+ History, Protest Strategies, Suffrage, Votes for Women

Margaret Lillian Foley did not enter history through a parlorRead 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Ida C. Craddock

Ida Craddock on the Belly Dance

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

Tagged: Anthony Comstock, belly dancing, Comstock Laws, First Amendment rights, obsenity, sex education

Ida Celenire Craddock (1857-1902) was born into a world whereRead More →

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson

Anna E. Dickinson: On Fame

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

Tagged: fame, orator

Anna Dickinson (1842-1932) was a major celebrity of her time.Read More →

Anna Dickinson

Anna Elizabeth Dickinson: America’s Shining Star

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

Once upon a time, Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (1842 to 1932)Read More →