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Susan B. Anthony
(b.1820, North Adams, Massachusetts; d. 1906, Rochester, New York)Susan B. Anthony's life and work offer a glimpse into the extraordinary events of both the abolitionist movement and the women's suffrage movement in the late nineteenth century. Anthony was... Read more
Natalie Barney
(b. 1876, Dayton, Ohio; d. 1972, Paris, France)Natalie Barney was both a poet and a prose writer, who was famous for her weekly salons, which gathered together many of the twentieth century's greatest artists and writers from... Read more
Christine de Pisan
(b. 1364, Venice, Italy; d. 1430, Poissy, France)Christine de Pisan (Christine de Pizan) was a medieval writer and historiographer who advocated for women's equality. Her works, considered to be some of the earliest feminist writings, include poetry... Read more
Margaret Sanger
(b. 1879, Corning, New York; d. 1966, Tucson, Arizona)Margaret Sanger was an activist who pioneered the fight for American reproductive freedom in the early 20th century.
She was born Margaret Louise Higgins, in Corning, New York... Read more
Ethel Smyth
(b. 1858, London, England; d. 1944, Woking, England)Ethel Smyth was a twentieth-century British composer and a champion of women's rights and female musicians. During her lifetime, she composed symphonies, choral works (musical pieces written for a choir)... Read more
Sojourner Truth
(b. 1797, Ulster County, New York; d. 1883, Battle Creek, Michigan)Sojourner Truth, born Isabella Baumfree, was recognized as one of the first people to identify the similarities between the struggles of black slaves and the struggles of women. As an... Read more
Mary Wollstonecraft
(b. 1759, London, England; d. 1797, London, England)Mary Wollstonecraft was a renowned women's rights activist who authored A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792, a classic of rationalist feminism that is considered the earliest and most... Read more
Virginia Woolf
(b. 1882, London, England; d. 1941, Sussex, England)Virginia Woolf is a renowned British novelist associated with the modernist movement in literature; her writing is characterized by experiments in language, narrative, and the treatment of time. Woolf is... Read more
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