Lydia Maria Child

Child, Lydia Maria - 1802–80, American author and abolitionist, b. Lydia Maria Francis, Medford, Mass. She edited (1826–34) the Juvenile Miscellany, a children's periodical. She and her husband (David Lee Child, whom she married in 1828) were devoted to the antislavery cause; she wrote widely read pamphlets on the subject in addition to editing (1841–49) the National Read More...

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Lydia Maria Child: The Quest for Racial Justice
by Lori Kenschaft. 127 pgs.

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1: The Love of Books

2: A Rising Star

3: The Abolitionist Crusade

4: The Pursuit of Literary Excellence

5: A Storm Gathers

6: War and its Aftermath

7: Twilight Years

Chronology

Further Reading

Museums and Historic Sites

Index
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A Lydia Maria Child Reader
by Carolyn L. Karcher. 454 pgs.

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Suggestions for Classroom Use and Explanation of Editorial Policy

Part One: The Indian Question

Introduction

The Church in the Wilderness

Willie Wharton

An Appeal for the Indians

Part Two: Children's Literature and Domestic Advice

Introduction

Louisa Preston

Management During the Teens

Letter from an Old Woman, on Her Birthday

Education of Children

Part Three: Slavery, Race, and Reconstruction

Introduction

Jumbo and Zairee

Prejudices Against People of Color, and Our Duties in Relation to This Subject

The Black Saxons

To Abolitionists

Annette Gray

Letters from New-York, Number 12

The Iron Shroud

Talk About Political Party

Letters from New-York, Number 33

Slavery's Pleasant Homes: A Faithful Sketch

Reply of Mrs. Child [to Mrs. Mason]

Mrs. L. Maria Child to the President of the United States

A Letter from L. Maria Child: Emancipation and Amalgamation

A Tribute to Col. Robert G. Shaw

Advice from an Old Friend

Through the Red Sea into the Wilderness

Homesteads

William Lloyd Garrison

Part Four: Journalism and Social Critique

Introduction

Letters from New York, Number 1

Letters from New York, Number 11

Letters from New York, Number 14

Letters from New York, Number 29

A High-Flying Letter

Part Five: Sexuality and the Woman Question

Introduction

Extracts from "African Women"

Speaking in the Church

Letters from New York, Number 34

Uncollected Letter from New-York

Hilda Silfverling: A Fantasy

Woman and Suffrage

Concerning Women

Women and the Freedmen

Part Six: Religion

Introduction

The Intermingling of Religions

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index
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An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans
by Lydia Maria Child, Carolyn L. Karcher. 212 pgs.

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"The Appeal was one of the most important early manifestoes of the militant phase of Garrisonian abolitionism. It is also an important event in the history of feminism, because it helped launch women into the public sphere. Carolyn Karcher is the ideal scholar to write the introduction". -- James M. McPherson, Princeton University

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Preface and Acknowledgments

Chronology of Lydia Maria Child

Introduction

Suggestions for Further Reading

An Appeal: In Favor Of That Class of Americans Called Africans

Preface.

An Appeal, &c.

Chapter II: Comparative, View of Slavery, In Different Ages and Nations.

Chapter III: Free Labor and Slave Labor. -- Possibility of Safe Emancipation.

Chapter IV: Influence of Slavery on the Politics Of the United States.

Chapter V: Colonization Society, And Anti-Slavery Society.

Chapter VI: Intellect of Negroes.

Chapter VII: Moral Character of Negroes.

Chapter VIII: Prejudices Against People of Color, And Our Duties in Relation To This Subject.
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The Artistry of Anger: Black and White Women's Literature in America, 1820-1860 (Chap. Four "Anger, Exile, and Restitution in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok")
by Linda M. Grasso. 252 pgs.

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In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Linda Grasso demonstrates that using anger as a mode of analysis and the basis of an aesthetic transforms our understanding of American women's literary history. Exploring how black and white nineteenth-century women writers defined, expressed, and dramatized anger, Grasso reconceptualizes antebellum women's writing and illuminates an unrecognized tradition of discontent in American literature. She maintains that two equally powerful forces shaped this tradition: women's anger at their exclusion from the democratic promise of America, and the cultural prohibition against its public articulation.
Grasso challenges the common notion that nineteenth-century women's writing is confined to domestic themes and shows instead how women channeled their anger into art that addresses complex political issues such as slavery, nation-building, gender arrangements, and race relations. Cutting across racial and genre boundaries, she considers works by Lydia Maria Child, Maria,W. Stewart, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Wilson as superb examples of the artistry of angry expression. Transforming their anger through literary imagination, these writers bequeathed their vision of an alternative America both to their contemporaries and to subsequent generations.

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Gender and American Culture

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Acknowledgments

Part One: Theories and Contexts

One: Anger as Analysis and Aesthetic in American Women's Literature

Two: The Antebellum Period as Case Study

Three: Nation-Building and Gendered Ideologies of Anger in Antebellum America

Part Two: Four Case Studies

Four: Anger, Exile, and Restitution in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok

Five: Maria W. Stewart's Inspired Wrath

Six: Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall

Seven: Judgment, Vengeance, and Punishment in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig

Conclusion: Making Sure the Anger Holds

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Gender and American Culture
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Dissent and the Daughter in A New England Tale and Hobomok, in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
by Nancy F. Sweet. 18 pgs.

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Sentiment and Space in Lydia Maria Child's Native American Writings, 1824-1870, in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
by Laura L. Mielke. 20 pgs.

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The "Tragic Mulatta" Revisited: Race and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Antislavery Fiction (Chap. 1 "Of Romances and Republics in Lydia Maria Child's Miscegenation Fiction")
by Eva Allegra Raimon. 202 pgs.

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Since its inception, the United States has been intensely preoccupied with interracialism. The concept is embedded everywhere in our social and political fabric, including our sense of national identity. And yet, in both its quantitative and symbolic forms, interracialism remains an extremely elusive phenomenon, causing policy makers and census boards to wrangle over how to delineate it and, on an emblematic level, stirring intense emotions from fear to fascination. In The "Tragic Mulatta" Revisited, Eve Allegra Raimon focuses on the mixed-race female slave in literature, arguing that this figure became a symbolic vehicle for explorations of race and nation-both of which were in crisis in the mid-nineteenth century. At this time, judicial, statutory, social, and scientific debates about the meaning of racial difference (and intermixture) coincided with disputes over frontier expansion, which were never merely about land acquisition but also literally about the "complexion" of that frontier. Embodying both northern and southern ideologies, the "amalgamated" mulatta, the author argues, can be viewed as quintessentially American, a precursor to contemporary motifs of "hybrid" and "mestizo" identities. Where others have focused on the gendered and racially abject position of the "tragic mulatta," Raimon reconsiders texts by such central antislavery writers as Lydia Maria Child, William Wells Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Harriet Wilson to suggest that the figure is more usefully examined as a way of understanding the volatile and shifting interface of race and national identity in the antebellum period.

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Acknowledgments

The “tragic Mulatta” Revisited

Introduction: Reading Miscegenation

Chapter 1: Of Romances and Republics in Lydia Maria Child's Miscegenation Fiction

Chapter 2: Revising the “quadroon Narrative” in William Wells Brown's Clotel

Chapter 3: Resistant Cassys in Richard Hildreth's the Slave and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

Chapter 4: Public Poor Relief and National Belonging in Harriet Wilson's Our Nig

Coda: The “tragic Mulatta” Then and Now

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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The Myth of Aunt Jemima: Representations of Race and Region (Chap. 5 "Olla Podrida America: Lydia Maria Child and Radical Miscegenation")
by Diane Roberts. 230 pgs.

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The Myth of Aunt Jemima is a bold and exciting look at the way three centuries of white women writers have tackled the subject of race in both Britain and America. Diane Roberts challenges the widely-held belief that white women writers have simply acquiesed in dominant cultural inscriptions of race. The Myth of Aunt Jemima shows how 'the mythic spheres of race, of the separation of black and white into low and high, other and originary, tainted and pure, remain to trouble a society struggling still to free itself from debilitating racial representations.' Beautifully written, with a powerful series of textual readings, The Myth of Aunt Jemima pushes at the boundaries of thought around the issues of race and gender. An important and innovative book.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction

1: Uncle Tom's Cabin

2: Instigated by the Devil

3: Miss Wright, Mrs Trollope and Miss Martineau

4: The Strange Career of Fanny Kemble

5: Olla Podrida America

6: Jemima and Jezebel in the New South

Notes

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"Your Sister Cannot Speak to You and Understand You as I Do": Native American Culture and Female Subjectivity in Lydia Maria Child and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, in ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
by Mark G. Vasquez. 17 pgs.

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Liberal Visions of Reconstruction: Lydia Maria Child's a Romance of the Republic and George Washington Cable's the Grandissimes, in Studies in American Fiction
by Karsten H. Piep. 25 pgs.

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The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872 ("New England Mothers: Introducing Child, Stowe, and Fern" begins on p. 32 and "Child versus Wise and Mason: Speaking for the North" begins on p. 61)
by Lyde Cullen Sizer. 348 pgs.

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This volume explores the lives and works of nine Northern women who wrote during the Civil War period, examining the ways in which, through their writing, they engaged in the national debates of the time. Lyde Sizer shows that from the 1850 publication of "Uncle Tom's Cabin through Reconstruction, these women, as well as a larger mosaic of lesser-known writers, used their mainstream writings publicly to make sense of war, womanhood, Union, slavery, republicanism, heroism, and death.
Among the authors discussed are Lydia Maria Child, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sara Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth, Mary Abigail Dodge (Gail Hamilton), Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Although direct political or partisan power was denied to women, these writers actively participated in discussions of national issues through their sentimental novels, short stories, essays, poetry, and letters to the editor.
Sizer pays close attention to how these mostly middle-class women attempted to create a "rhetoric of unity, " giving common purpose to women despite differences in class, race, and politics. This theme of unity was ultimately deployed to establish a white middle-class standard of womanhood, meant to exclude as well as include.

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The Political Work of Northern Women Writers and the Civil War, 1850-1872

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Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: My Sphere Rounds Out Northern Women and the Written War

Chapter One: Rowing Against Wind and Tide How Women Wrote

Chapter Two: Raising a Voice the Civil War Begins in the 1850s

Chapter Three: What Can Woman Do? the Rhetoric of Unity, 1861-1863

Chapter Four: A Woman's Road Crisis at Midwar

Chapter Five: Trying to Find Places the Question of African American Freedom in the Late War

Chapter Six: Woman's Part of Glory Love, Death, and Work in Women's Writing, 1863-1865

Chapter Seven: The Times Which Form History Writing the War, 1865-1868

Chapter Eight: Still Waiting Race and the Politics of Reconstruction

Chapter Nine: A New Emancipation Interpreting the War for Tomorrow

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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"But Maria, Did You Really Write This?": Preface as Cover Story in Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok, in Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers
by Molly Vaux. 13 pgs.

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A Quilt for Life: Lydia Maria Child's the American Frugal Housewife, in ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
by Hildegard Hoeller. 15 pgs.

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Race Mixture in Nineteenth-Century U.S. and Spanish American Fictions: Gender, Culture, and Nation Building (Chap. 4 "Floral Counterdiscourse: Miscegenation, Ecofeminism, and Hybridity in Lydia Maria Child's Romance of the Republic")
by Debra J. Rosenthal. 182 pgs.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Inter-American Interracial Intercourse

Chapter 1: Race Mixture and the Representation of Indians in the United States and the Andes

Chapter 2: Temperance and Miscegenation in Whitman's Franklin Evans

Chapter 3: Cuban Slave Fiction: Race Mixture in Sab

Chapter 4: Floral Counterdiscourse: Miscegenation, Ecofeminism, and Hybridity in Lydia Maria Child's Romance of the Republic

Chapter 5: The White Blackbird: Miscegenation, Genre, and the Tragic Mulatta in Howells, Harper, and the Babes of Romance

Conclusion

Notes

Works Cited

Index
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Women during the Civil War: An Encyclopedia ("Child, Lydia Maria (1802-1880)" begins on p. 74)
by Judith E. Harper. 480 pgs.

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For more information, including a full list of entries, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Women During the Civil War website.Women During the Civil War: An Encyclopedia is the first A-Z reference work to offer a panoramic presentation of the contributions, achievements, and personal stories of American women during one of the most turbulent eras of the nation's history. Incorporating the most recent scholarship as well as excerpts from diaries, letters, newspapers, and other primary source documents, this Encyclopedia encompasses the wartime experiences of famous and lesser-known women of all ethnic groups and social backgrounds throughout the United States during the Civil War era.

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Foreword

Introduction

Acknowledgments

List of Entries

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B

Selected Readings

C

Selected Readings

Selected Readings

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D

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F

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Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)" begins on p. 42)
by Denise D. Knight, Emmanuel S. Nelson. 540 pgs.

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As the American literary canon has undergone revision and expansion in recent years, the influence of women writers of the nineteenth century has been reevaluated. The first book of its kind, this reference provides alphabetically arranged entries for more than 70 nineteenth-century American women writers, such as Louisa May Alcott, Margaret Fuller, Emma Lazarus, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and includes a biography, a discussion of the author's major works and themes, an overview of the critical studies examining the writer's works, and a bibliography of works for further consultation.

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Preface

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

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Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta (1815-1891)

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Maria Gowen Brooks (Maria del Occidente) (1794-1845)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924)

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Alice Cary (1820-1871)

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Phoebe Cary (1824-1871)

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Caroline Chesebro' (Caroline Chesebrough) (1825-1873)

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Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)

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Kate Chopin (1850-1904)

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Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe (Dame Shirley) (1819-1906)

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Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892)

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Ina Donna Coolbrith (1841-1928)

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Anna Julia Cooper (1858-1964)

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Maria Susanna Cummins (1827-1866)

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Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

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Alice Ruth Moore Dunbar- Nelson (1875-1935)

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Emma Embury (1806-1863)

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Fanny Fern (sara Payson Willis Parton) (1811-1872)

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Kate Field (1838-1896)

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Martha Finley (Martha Farquharson) (1828-1909)

Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930)

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Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935)

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Anna Katharine Green (1846-1935)

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Sarah Pratt Mclean Greene (1856-1935)

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Grace Greenwood (sara Jane Clarke Lippincott) (1823-1904)

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Angelina GrimkÉ: (1805-1879)

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Sarah GrimkÉ (1792-1873)

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Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879)

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Gail Hamilton (Mary Abigail Dodge) (1833-1896)

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Marion Harland (Mary Virginia Hawes Terhune) (1830-1922)

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Fances E. W. Harper (1825-1911)

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Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (1800-1856)

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Marietta Holley (Josiah Allen's Wife) (1836-1926)

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Mary Jane Hawes Holmes (1825-1907)

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930)

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Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (1844-1891)

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Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910)

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Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885)

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Harriet A. Jacobs (Linda Brent) (C. 1813-1897)

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Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

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Grace Elizabeth King (1852-1932)

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Caroline Kirkland (1801-1864)

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Lucy Larcom (1824-1893)

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Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Mary Alphonsa) (1851-1926)

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Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)

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Maria Jane Mcintosh (1803-1878)

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Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868)

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Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt (Ritchie): (1819-1870)

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Mary Noailles Murfree (Charles Egbert Craddock): (1850-1922)

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Elizabeth Oakes Smith: (1806-1893)

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Frances Sargent Locke Osgood: (1811-1850)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1815-1852)

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Henrietta Cordelia Ray (1849?-1916)

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Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)

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Atharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)

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Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney (1791-1865)

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E. D. E. N. Southworth (Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth) (1819-1899)

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Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)

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Ann Sophia Stephens (1810-1886)

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Maria Stewart (1803-1879)

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Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard: (1823-1902)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

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Ruth Mcenery Stuart (1849-1917)

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Octave Thanet (Alice French) (1850-1934)

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Celia Laighton Thaxter (1835-1894)

Metta Victoria Fuller Victor (1831-1885)

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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844-1911)

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Susan Warner (1819-1885)

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Frances Miriam Berry Whitcher (1814-1852)

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Sarah Helen Whitman (1803-1878)

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A. D. T. Whitney (Adeline Dutton Train Whitney) (1824-1906)

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Augusta Jane Evans Wilson (1835-1909)

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Harriet E. Wilson (1827?-1863?)

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Sally S. Wood (1759-1855)

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Constance Fenimore Woolson (1840-1894)

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