Novelists

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 →

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 →

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 →

An Old woman's hand resting on a book Caroline Howard Jarvey

Caroline Howard Jervey on Happy Ladies

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

Tagged: Children's Stories, Novelists

Many romance writers of the past have quietly slipped into oblivion despite popularity during their lifetimes. One such author is Caroline Howard Jervey.Read More →

Sarah Josepha Hale on Beginning a Novel

In: 18th Century Women, 19th Century Women, Authors, Writing

Tagged: Editor, Female Education, Novelists, Poetry, Recipe, Slavery, Thanksgiving, Woman's Rights, writing a novel

Widow, Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1877) wrote and worked to support her family. As editor of first the American Lady’s Book and then Godey’s Lady Book she was arbitrator of American fashion and letters for over forty years.Read More →