Category
page 119th-century American women poets
Emily Dickinson
American poet (1830-1886)
Louisa May Alcott
American novelist (1832–1888)
Edith Wharton
American writer and designer (1862–1937)
Mary Baker Eddy
American founder of Christian Science (1821–1910)

Voltairine de Cleyre
American anarchist writer and feminist

Emma Lazarus
American poet (1849–1887)
Julia Ward Howe
American abolitionist, social activist, and poet
Lydia Maria Child
American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)

Mary Mapes Dodge
American children's writer (1831-1905)
Ellen Glasgow
Novelist, short story writer (1873–1945)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
American writer
Sarah Orne Jewett
American novelist, short story writer and poet (1849–1909)
Sarah Josepha Hale
American writer and editor (1788–1889)
Alice Dunbar Nelson
American writer, activist (1875-1935)
Mercy Otis Warren
American writer
Helen Hunt Jackson
American novelist, poet, writer, activist (1830–1885)
Katharine Lee Bates
American poet and songwriter (1859-1929)
Elizabeth F. Ellet
American writer, poet, translator (1818–1877)
Florence Earle Coates
American writer and poet (1850-1927)
Adah Isaacs Menken
American actress, dancer, painter, and poet (1835–1868)
Frances Sargent Osgood
American poet (1811–1850)
Alice Cary
American writer (1820–1871)
Elizabeth Akers Allen
American author, journalist, poet (1832-1911)
Phoebe Caryary
American writer (1824-1871)
Sarah Helen Whitman
United States poet (1803-1878)
Constance Fenimore Woolson
American writer (1840-1894)
Ina Coolbrith
American poet, writer, and librarian (1841–1928)
Anne Lynch Botta
American poet and socialite (1815–1891)
Lola Rodríguez de Tió
Puerto Rican poet and writer (1843-1924)

Margaret Deland
American writer and poet (1857–1945)
Frances Dana Barker Gage
American writer (1808-1884)
Anne Whitney
American sculptor (1821-1915)

Louise Chandler Moulton
American poet, story-writer and critic (1835–1908)
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard
United States poet and novelist (1823–1902)
Lucy Larcom
American teacher, poet, author (1824-1893)
Clarissa Allen
American author and educator (1859-1941)
Lydia Sigourney
American poet (1791–1865)
Lucy Terry
African American writer, poet (1730–1821)
Eliza Roxcy Snow
American Mormon writer (1804-1887)
Nora May French
American writer (1881–1907)
Sarah Bradford
American head teacher, writer and biographer (1818–1912)
Anne Reeve Aldrich
American poet and novelist (1866-1892)
Celia Thaxter
American writer (1835-1894)
Ellen Sturgis Hooper
American poet

Ellen Palmer Allerton
American poet
Metta Victoria Fuller
American writer (1831-1885)
Mother Mary Alphonsa
(1851-1926) Roman Catholic sister and social worker
Zaruhi Kalemkaryan
Ottoman-Armenian poet and writer
Marie Louise Andrews
American short story writer, poet, and journalist (1849–1891)

Elizabeth Margaret Chandler
American abolitionist and writer (1807-1834)
Lucretia Maria Davidson
American poet
Sara Jane Lippincott
American writer (1823–1904)

Rose Terry Cooke
American writer (1827–1892)

Ethel Lynn Beers
American writer (1827-1879)

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
American poet (1836–1919)
Josephine Pollard
Hymn writer and poet (1834-1892)
Mary Mathews Adams
American poet, philanthropist
Olivia Ward Bush
American writer (1869–1944)
Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
19th century American Indian literary author
Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney
American writer