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Frederick Douglass, [85] an American abolitionist, women's suffragist, editor, orator, author, statesman, minister and reformer. He was and is one of the most renowned figures in United States history. Booker T. Washington started his life as a slave, but he was an African American leader.
Western women writers have long been a marginalized group. 1979 was the first year an anthology on western American women writers was published. [11] The Western Literature Association was founded in the 1960's to foster the work of contemporary women writers. [ 11 ]
She then co-founded the National Women's Political Caucus, was the first Black woman to serve on the House Rules Committee, and spent her life championing equality, pacifism, and ending poverty ...
Title page of Mary Collier's The Woman's Labour: an Epistle to Mr Stephen Duck (London, 1739) (Google Books) This list focuses on published authors whose working-class status or background was part of their literary reputation. These were, in the main, writers without access to formal education, so they were either autodidacts or had mentors or ...
First woman reporter on the New York Times payroll, advocate for social reform and women's rights: 1800–1874: Angelina Emily Grimké: United States: 1805: 1879: First-wave feminist; Woman Suffrage advocate [25] [35] 1800–1874: Bella Guerin: Australia: 1858: 1923: Socialist feminist; first woman to graduate from an Australian university ...
Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to run for president in the U.S. and she made her historic run in 1872 – before women even had the right to vote! She supported women's suffrage as well as welfare for the poor, and though it was frowned upon at the time, she didn't shy away from being vocal about sexual freedom.
A Celebration of Women Writers; SAWNET: The South Asian Women's NETwork Bookshelf; Victorian Women Writers Project; Voices from the Gaps: Women Artists & Writers of Color; The Women Writers Archive: Early Modern Women Writers Online; SOPHIE: a digital library of works by German-speaking women; REBRA: a list of women writers from Brazil.
Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia is a 16-volume reference work of biographies of notable women. It includes biographies of around 10,000 women, and also includes genealogical charts of noble families and some joint entries about multiple women (such as "Astronauts: Women in Space").