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Laura Bassi on Struggle
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Vinnie Ream on Art and Nature
Harriet Hosmer on Sculpture vs Painting
Ida C. Craddock on Comstockery
Jane Grey Swisshelm on Congressional Behavior
Anna Cora Mowatt on Acting
Anna Elizabeth Broomall on Episiotomy
Elizabeth Fries Ellet on Women’s Art
Alice Moore Hubbard on Romance
Nannie Helen Burroughs on Voting
Dorothy Levitt on Maps
Ann Plato on Benevolence
Harriet Martineau on American Women
Maud Allan on Art is Long
Mary Putnam Jacobi on Self-Confidence
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin on Congenial Souls
Henrietta Payne Westbrook on Marriage
Ida Craddock on the Belly Dance
Carrie Burnham Kilgore on Persisting
Georgiana Houghton on It Was To Be
Dorothea Jordan and Scandal
Lula White on A Good Education
Emma Hardinge Britten on No Limits
Sophia Hawthorne on Devotion
Anna E. Dickinson: On Fame
Anna Elizabeth Dickinson: America’s Shining Star
Caroline Wells Healey Dall on Truth
Catharine Weed Barnes on Is It Well Done?
Emily Carr on Neither Planning or Knowing
Hannah Adams on Being a Professional Writer
Laura Towne on Repairing Books
Eliza Grier on Struggle
Esther Howland on the Valentine Business
Caroline Howard Jervey on Happy Ladies
Sarah Josepha Hale on Beginning a Novel
Harrriot Kezia Hunt on Critics
Ella Maria Dietz on Dreams
Aphra Behn on Love
Edmonia Lewis on Struggle
Mary Ashton Livermore on Autobiography
Mary Harris Jones on Labor and Sin
Beatrice Potter Webb on Constraining an Intellect
Cecily Hamilton on Being Brave
Mary Church Terrell on Standing for Suffrage
Annie Kenney on Movements and Silent Followers
I. A. R. Wylie on Happiness & Militancy
Helena Swanwick on War & Peace
Mary Hunter Austin on Observing the Desert
Catherine Beecher on Exercise
Anne Hampton Brewster on My Novel
Felicia Hemans on Marriage
Adah Issacs Menken on Working and Waiting
Virginia Penny On Women’s Work
Rose Winslow on Starving for the Vote
Ella Wheeler Wilcox on War
Sojourner Truth in Her Own Words
Francis Burney on Being Female
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper on Racial Uplift
Ada Goodrich Freer on Hauntings
Anna Maria Jarvis on Mother’s Day
Charlotte Forten Grimke on Books
Louisa May Alcott on Washing the Wounded
Lucretia Mott on Truth
Augusta Evans Wilson on Facing Sin
Wide, Wide World: A Book Review for International Woman’s Day
Ester Howland and Valentine’s Day Civil War Style
George Sand on the Working Man
Harriet Tubman on Slavery is the Next Thing to Hell
Sarah Josepha Hale on Beginning a Novel
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