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Lydia Darragh (1729 – December 28, 1789) was an Irish woman said to have crossed British lines during the British occupation of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the American Revolutionary War, delivering information to George Washington and the Continental Army that warned them of a pending British attack. [2]
From the fight for women’s suffrage to a call to end violence against women, for social justice and equality, to the more recent #MeToo movement against sexual predators, women have spearheaded ...
Pages in category "Novels set during the American Revolutionary War" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Chains, written by Laurie Halse Anderson, is the first in the Seeds of America trilogy of young-adult historical novels, published in the United States on October 21, 2008. [1] The story follows Isabel, a teenaged African-American slave striving for and her younger sister's freedom during the American Revolutionary War.
Partly in response to Smith, [10] and drawing on that Revolutionary War research, [11] Neal wrote the first draft of Brother Jonathan while sailing across the Atlantic. [12] The working title was The Yankee , [ 13 ] and he intended it to be a major work [ 14 ] that would expand his recognition as a significant novelist beyond the US and into ...
Mary Hays (1759–1843) was an autodidact intellectual who published essays, poetry, novels and several works on famous (and infamous) women. She is remembered for her early feminism, and her close relations to dissenting and radical thinkers of her time including Robert Robinson, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin and William Frend. [1]
Elizabeth Fries Ellet (née Lummis; October 18, 1818 – June 3, 1877) was an American writer, historian and poet. She was the first writer to record the lives of women who contributed to the American Revolutionary War.
Oct. 5, 1789, a young woman struck a marching drum and led The Women's March on Versailles, in a revolt against King Louis XVI of France, storming the palace and signaling the French Revolution. [30] In 1947, Chief Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti led the Abeokuta Women's Union in a revolt that resulted in the abdication of the Egba High King Oba Ademola ...