Blog – Joan Koster

Margaret Foley American Suffragette

Margaret Foley on Heckling

In: 20th Century Women, Activists, Women's Rights

Tagged: American Suffragettes, LBGT+ History, Protest Strategies, Suffrage, Votes for Women

Margaret Lillian Foley did not enter history through a parlorRead More →

Erminnia Adele Platt Smith

Erminnie A. Platt Smith on Asking Questions

In: 19th Century Women, Science

Tagged: Anthropologist, Ethnographer, Geologist, Iroquois

Erminnie Adele Smith (April 26, 1836– June 9, 1886) wasRead More →

Helen Hamilton Gardener

Helen Hamilton Gardner on the Power of Fiction

In: 19th Century Women, Activists, Authors, Women's Rights

Tagged: 19th amendment, Free Thought, Lecturer, Novelists, Sexual inequality, Women's suffrage

Helen Hamilton Gardener, née Alice Chenoweth, (January 21, 1852 toRead More →

Dr. Henrietta Hyde, biologist

Ida Henrietta Hyde on Getting a Degree

In: 19th Century Women, Science, Women's Rights

Tagged: Advanced Degrees, Biology, Female Education, Public Health

Educator, biologist, public health and women’s rights advocate Ida HenriettaRead More →

Dr. Ann Preston

Ann Preston on Do Thy Best

Dr. Ann Preston (1813 to 1872) was an abolitionist, aRead More →

A writer

Sarah Hoding on the Mammoth

In: 18th Century Women, Authors, Poets, Writing

Tagged: British, Critics, journaling, Mammoth, Slavery

British-born Sara Hoding (1798 to ?) has left little markRead More →

Laura Bassi on Struggle

In: 18th Century Women, Motherhood, Science

Tagged: Bologna, Female Education, Italian, Newton, Physicist, Teaching

Laura Maria Caterina Bassi Veratti (1711 – 1778), an ItalianRead More →

Ona Judge: I am Free

Ona Judge on Freedom

In: 17th Century Women, Abolition, Women's Rights, Writing

Tagged: Book Review, Colonial American, Martha Washington, Slavery

This is a special guest post in honor of BlackRead More →

Vinnie Ream on Art and Nature

In: 19th Century Women, Artists

Tagged: Abraham Lincoln, American artist, Art, Civil War, Gilded Age, Scupture

American sculptor, Vinnie Ream (1847*-1914), was the first woman andRead More →

Harriet Hosmer, Sculptor

Harriet Hosmer on Sculpture vs Painting

In: 19th Century Women, Artists

Tagged: Sculptors

Long forgotten, American sculptor Harriet Hosmer (1830-1908) successfully challenged theRead More →

Ida C. Craddock

Ida C. Craddock on Comstockery

In: 19th Century Women, Activists, Authors, Spiritualism, Women's Rights

Tagged: Anthony Comstock, Banned Books, Comstock Act, Female Education, sex education

In honor of Banned Books Week, I am sharing moreRead More →

Jane Grey Swisshelm

Jane Grey Swisshelm on Congressional Behavior

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Activists, Authors, Civil War, Journalists, Women's Rights, Writing

Tagged: Compromise of 1850, Congressional reporting, Slavery

JANE GREY SWISSHELM (December 6, 1815 -July 22, 1884) wasRead More →