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Annie Maria Barnes (pen name, Cousin Annie; May 28, 1857 – October 21 1933 or December 31 1943) was a 19th-century American journalist, editor, and author from South Carolina. At the age of eleven, she wrote an article for the Atlanta Constitution , and at the age of fifteen, she became a regular correspondent of that journal.
Nora Stanton Barney (granddaughter) Signature. Elizabeth Cady Stanton (née Cady; November 12, 1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American writer and activist who was a leader of the women's rights movement in the U.S. during the mid- to late-19th century. She was the main force behind the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first convention to be ...
Portrait of Jane Addams, from a charcoal drawing in 1892 by Alice Kellogg Tyler.Source: Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), p. 114 Laura Jane Addams [1] (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, [2] [3] sociologist, [4] public administrator, [5] [6] philosopher, [7] [8] and author.
Sarah Josepha Hale. Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer, activist, and editor of the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey's Lady's Book. [ 1 ] She was the author of the nursery rhyme " Mary Had a Little Lamb ".
By 1913, Feminism (originally capitalized) was a household term in the United States. [125] Major issues in the 1910s and 1920s included suffrage, women's partisan activism, economics and employment, sexualities and families, war and peace, and a Constitutional amendment for equality.
Maria Cederschiöld (1856–1935), the first woman journalist in Sweden to be chief editor of a newspaper's foreign department. Olena Chekan (1946–2013), did political interviews. Frona Eunice Wait Colburn (1859–1946), one of only two female journalists in San Francisco in 1887, associate editor of the Overland Monthly.
Amelia Jenks Bloomer (May 27, 1818 – December 30, 1894) was an American newspaper editor, women's rights and temperance advocate. Even though she did not create the women's clothing reform style known as bloomers, her name became associated with it because of her early and strong advocacy. In her work with The Lily, she became the first woman ...
The works of Jane Austen (1775–1817) critique the novels of sensibility of the second half of the 18th century and are part of the transition to 19th-century realism. [119] Her plots in novels such as Pride and Prejudice (1813) and Emma (1815), though fundamentally comic, highlight the dependence of women on marriage to secure social standing ...