American Women Writers, 1850-1936

Croly, J. C. (Jane Cunningham), 1829-1901

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Jane Cunningham Croly (December 19, 1829 – December 23, 1901) was a British-born American author and journalist, better known by her pseudonym, Jennie June. She was a pioneer author and editor of women's columns in leading newspapers and magazines in New York. She founded the Sorosis club for women in New York in 1868 and in 1889 expanded it nationwide to the General Federation of Women's Clubs. She also founded the Woman's Press Club of New York City. Jane Cunningham was born in England, the...

Cary, Phoebe, 1824-1871

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Phoebe Cary (September 4, 1824 – July 31, 1871) was an American poet, and the younger sister of poet Alice Cary (1820–1871). The sisters co-published poems in 1849, and then each went on to publish volumes of their own. After their deaths in 1871, joint anthologies of the sisters' unpublished poems were also compiled. phoebe Cary was born on September 4, 1824, in Mount Healthy, Ohio near Cincinnati, and she and her sister Alice were raised on the Clovernook farm in what is now North College H...

Crothers, Rachel, 1878-1958

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Rachel Crothers (December 12, 1878 – July 5, 1958) was an American playwright and theater director known for her well-crafted plays that often dealt with feminist themes. Among theater historians, she is generally recognized as "the most successful and prolific woman dramatist writing in the first part of the twentieth century." One of her most famous plays was Susan and God (1937), which was made into a film by MGM in 1940 starring Joan Crawford and Fredric March. Crothers was born on Decemb...

Harness, Virginia

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Driscoll, Emily V.

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Emily Driscoll is a West Virginia manuscript dealer....

Wolff, Gertrude

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Osgood, Frances Sargent Locke, 1811-1850

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Frances Sargent Osgood (née Locke; June 18, 1811 – May 12, 1850) was an American poet and one of the most popular women writers during her time. Nicknamed "Fanny", she was also famous for her exchange of romantic poems with Edgar Allan Poe. Frances Sargent Locke was born in Boston, Massachusetts to Joseph Locke, a wealthy merchant, and his second wife, Mary Ingersoll Foster. Her father's first wife, Martha Ingersoll, was the sister of Mary, his second wife. Mary was also the widow of Benjamin...

Dickinson, Anna E. (Anna Elizabeth), 1842-1932

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Anna Elizabeth Dickinson (October 28, 1842 – October 22, 1932) was an American orator and lecturer. An advocate for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights, Dickinson was the first woman to give a political address before the United States Congress. A gifted speaker at a very young age, she aided the Republican Party in the hard-fought 1863 elections and significantly influenced the distribution of political power in the Union just prior to the Civil War. Dickinson was the first white wo...

Burr, Amelia Josephine, 1878-

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Coates, Florence Earle, 1850-1927

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Gale, Zona, 1874-1938

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Zona Gale was a prominent writer and political activist born in Portage, Wisconsin. Gale attended the University of Wisconsin and worked as a reporter in Milwaukee. Gale, a lifelong friend of Jane Addams, became involved in the fight for the women's vote and eventually went to work for the writer Edmund Clarence Stedman. Her novel, "Miss Lulu Bett" was successfully adapted for the theater. From the description of Correspondence, 1907-1929. (Temple University Libraries). WorldCat reco...

Barrow, Frances Elizabeth Meese, 1822-1894.

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Page, Curtis Hidden, 1870-1946

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Curtis Hidden Page was an American educator and translator born in Greenwood, Missouri, in 1870. The Pages trace their roots back to some of the founding members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, including Gov. John Winthrop. Page graduated from Harvard University in 1892 with a doctorate in English Literature and a concentration in French. He taught French and English at Harvard for fifteen years. In 1911, after a brief stint at Columbia and Northwestern Universities, Page became a ...

Corbett, Elizabeth Frances, 1887-

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Gilder, Jeannette L. (Jeannette Leonard), 1849-1916

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Journalist, editor, and literary critic for various publications. From the description of Papers of Jeannette L. Gilder [manuscript], 1879-1909. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647810869 Jeannette L. Gilder was an editor, journalist, and critic, best remembered as editor of The Critic, which she co-founded with her brother, Joseph. The Critic was small but respected, and published and encouraged some of the most recognizable names of the day. She continued to c...

Fields, James Thomas, 1817-1881

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James Thomas Fields, American publisher and author, was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1817. At the age of 17, he went to Boston to clerk in a booksellers shop. While clerking, he often wrote for newspapers and in 1839 he became junior partner in the publishing and bookselling firm known after 1846 as Ticknor and Fields, and after 1868 as Fields, Osgood & Company. He was the publisher of several prominent contemporary American and British writers. Besides just publishing the authors, h...

Mann, George E.

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Magruder, Julia, 1854-1907

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Harris, Corra, 1869-1935

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"Novelist Corra White Harris was one of the most celebrated women from Georgia for nearly three decades in the early twentieth century. She is best known for her first novel, A Circuit Rider's Wife (1910), though she gained a national audience a decade before its publication. From 1899 through the 1920s, she published hundreds of essays and short stories and more than a thousand book reviews in such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, and esp...

Johnson, Virginia W. (Virginia Wales), 1849-1916

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Thomas, Edith Matilda, 1854-1925

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American poet. From the description of Doom : autograph poem signed : [n.p., n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270572001 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : Geneva, Ohio, to John W. Field, 1885 Jul. 1 and 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270571998 From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) : West New Brighton, Staten Island, etc., to F.A. Duneka, 1909 Oct. 27-1911 Apr. 19, and undated. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270571988 ...

Burton, Jennie Davis, -1939.

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Peabody, Elizabeth Palmer, 1804-1894

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Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was at the center of the Transcendentalist movement in New England. Although she wrote and published many works, she is best remembered for her support and friendship of Emerson, Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller and many others. She published the journal Dial, founded the famous West Street Book Shop and Publishing House, and introduced kindergarten to America. From the description of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody letters, 1846-1854. (Pennsylvania State University Libra...