Authors

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 →

Sarah Hoding on the Mammoth

In: 18th Century Women, Authors, Poets, Writing

Tagged: British, Critics, journaling, Mammoth, Slavery

British-born Sara Hoding (1798 to ?) has left little markRead More →

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 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 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 →

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 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 →

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 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 →

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 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 →

Emma Hardinge Britten on No Limits

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

Born in London, Britain in 1823, Emma Hardinge Britten had a varied career as a professional singer, pianist, actress, and spiritualist, and like Anna Dickinson, became a popular orator during the American Civil War.Read More →