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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
Elizabeth Blackwell
(b. 1821, Bristol, England; d. 1910, Sussex, England)In 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell became the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. The English-born physician opened the field for other women while founding important medical... Read more
Anne Hutchinson
(b. 1591, Alford, Lincolnshire, England; d. 1643, Pelham Bay Park, New York)Anne Marbury Hutchinson was a Puritan, who held discussions in her home in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, critiquing the Bible and Puritan laws. These sessions, which were in opposition to... 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
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