19th-century American women writers

American deafblind author, political activist, lecturer, scholar (1880-1968)

Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)

American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer (1860–1935)

First Lady of the United States from 1797 to 1801

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Russian occult writer (1831-1891)

American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860–1935)

American author, co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (1827–1915)

American suffragist, editor (1838-1927)

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First Lady of the United States from 1869 to 1877

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American abolitionist (1792–1873)

American temperance activist and suffragist (1839–1898)

American novelist (1876-1916)

First Lady of United States (1846-1918)

19th century Christian hymnist

Zitkala-Ša, also Zitkála-Šá (Lakota: , meaning Red Bird; February 22, 1876 – January 26, 1938), was a Yankton Dakota writer, editor, translator, musician, educator, and political activist. She was also known by her anglicized and married name, Gertrude Simmons Bonnin. She wrote several works chronicling her struggles with cultural identity, and the pull between the majority culture in which she was educated, and the Dakota culture into which she was born and raised. Her later books were among the first works to bring traditional Native American stories to a widespread white English-speaking re

American philosopher and psychologist (1863–1930)

American slave, writer, and abolitionist (1815-1897)

American journalist

American feminist activist (1810–1892)

American minister (1825–1921)

American ornithologist, birdwatcher, and nature writer (1863 – 1948)

American author (1857–1948)

Native American writer, activist, scout, and teacher (1844–1891)

American abolitionist and feminist

American physician (1831 - 1895)

Second wife of President Jefferson Davis and First Lady of the Confederate States (1826–1906)

American educator, naturalist, writer (1822-1907)

American journalist

American activist (1859–1932)

American writer and advocate for women's rights (1751-1820)

American carcinologist (1860–1943)

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American essayist (1855–1950)

American ethnologist

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American author and inventor (1835–1914)

American educator, botanist, author (1793-1884)

American activist and suffragette (1863–1954)

American suffragist (1844-1923)

American Confederate spy (1844–1900)

American author best known for her work on Shakespearean authorship (1811–1859)

American social worker

American biologist, botanist and entomologist (1830-1923)

American author, wife of Robert Louis Stevenson (1840-1914)

American abolitionist and suffragist (1824-1894)

American writer (1823-1886)

American archaeologist and anthropologist (1857-1933)

American writer and activist (1857–1902)

American suffragist, writer, journalist, pioneer (1834–1915)

American writer and social activist (1856-1940)

American educator 1804-1894

American writer and activist (1849–1949)

novelist

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