Woman’s Rights

Maud Allan on Art is Long

In: 20th Century Women, Actresses, Artists, Women's Rights

Tagged: Dance, lesbianism, Woman's Rights

I am sure you have heard of the Dance ofRead More →

Henrietta Payne Westbrook on Marriage

In: 19th Century Women, Activists, Authors, Medicine

Tagged: Free Love, Marriage, Woman's Rights

Henrietta Payne Westbrook (1834-1909) was a physician, reporter ,and author,Read More →

Lula White on A Good Education

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

Tagged: New Orleans, Prostitution, racism, Sex Worker, Suffrage, Woman's Rights

Not Just a Madam: Lula White of Basin Street GettingRead More →

Sarah Josepha Hale on Beginning a Novel

In: 18th Century Women, 19th Century Women, Authors, Writing

Tagged: Editor, Female Education, Novelists, Poetry, Recipe, Slavery, Thanksgiving, Woman's Rights, writing a novel

Widow, Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1877) wrote and worked to support her family. As editor of first the American Lady’s Book and then Godey’s Lady Book she was arbitrator of American fashion and letters for over forty years.Read More →

Francis Burney on Being Female

In: 18th Century Women, Literature, Writing

Tagged: Feminism, Jane Austin, Novelists, Playwright, Woman's Rights, Writing

At the age of fifteen, Frances Burney (1752-1840) tossed the plays,Read More →

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper on Racial Uplift

In: 19th Century Women, Abolition, Civil War, Literature

Tagged: 15th Amendment, Poetry, Reconstruction, Slavery, Woman's Rights

“I ask no monument, proud and high to arrest theRead More →

Lucretia Mott on Truth

In: Abolition, Education, Women's Rights

Tagged: Female Education, Female Medical College, Seneca Falls, Swarthmore College, Truth, Woman's Rights

The Quaker minister, Lucretia Mott, lived from 1793 to 1880.Read More →