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This site is a collection of biographical sketches of people important in the debate over "The Woman Question" in the 19th century. It is meant to complement Melanie Ulrich's Rhetoric of Anglo-American Feminism class (RHE 309ca). The objective of the class as a whole is to disseminate information about the lives and personalities of the individuals who began the fight for women's liberation. Knowing about our foremothers and their beliefs and struggles helps this generation of feminists (men and women) to articulate and develop our own beliefs, provides us with role models, enables us to appreciate and honor the efforts of the early feminists, and begins to fill in a regrettable gap in the subject of history as taught to most Americans.
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Anna Wheeler
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Abigail Adams
Anna Brownell Jameson
Anna Garlin Spenser
Anne Bronte
Anne Jemima Clough
Bessie Rayner Parkes
Caroline Frances Cornwallis
Carrie Chapman Catt
Charles Bradlaugh (birth control)
Charlotte Bronte
Charlotte Despard
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna (The Wrongs of Woman)
Christina Rossetti
Cicely Corbett-Fisher
Clara Zetkin
Clementina Black
Constance Markievicz (Easter Rebellion, Irish
MP & Sinn Fein)
Dinah Craik?
Dorothea Beale
Edith Simcox?
Elizabeth Blackwell
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Garrett
Elizabeth Inchbald
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Elizabeth Wolstenholme-Elmy (educationist
& eventual radical)
Emily Davies
Emily Davison (woman killed at Ascot)
Emily Hobhouse (reported on Boer War
concentration camps)
Emily James Putnam
Emily Sherriff
Emma Goldman
Ernestine L. Rose
Fanny Burney
Fanny Wright
Florence Nightingale
Frances Balfour
Francis Buss
Frederick Douglass
Frederika Bremer
George Sand
Geraldine Jewsbury
Hannah More
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet H. Robinson
Harriet Taylor Mill
Helen Taylor
Henrik Ibsen
Jane Addams
Kate Chopin
Louis Aime-Martin
Louisa May Alcott
Lucretia Mott
Lucy Aiken
Lucy Stone
Lydia Maria Child
Margery Corbett Ashby
Maria G. Grey
Maria Weston Chapman
Marie Corbett
Marie Stopes (birth control)
Mary Astell
Mary F. Robinson
Mary Hays (Female Biography, Memoirs Emma Courtney)
Mary Kingsley (adventurer, neice of Charles)
Mary Ritter Bread
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Nellie Bly
Olive Schreiner
Ouida
Robert Owen
Sarah Ellis
Sarah Grimke
Sarah Louise Bevington
Sophia Jex Blake
Sydney Owenson Morgan
Thomas Hood
Victoria (Claflin) Woodhull
Virginia Woolf
Willa Cather
William Lloyd Garrison
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Amelia Bloomer