Part of the American History & Genealogy Project

Biographies of Playwrights and Authors

• Hannah Adams 1755 ~ 1832

• Louisa M. Alcott 1832 ~ 1888

• Cynthia Westover Alden 1858 ~ 1931

• Amelia Edith Barr 1831 ~ 1919

• Frances Hodgson Burnett 1849 ~ 1924

• Katharine G. Busbey 1872

• Emma (Anna) Ella Carroll 1815 ~ 1894

• Lydia Maria Child 1802 ~ 1880

• Georgina Pell Curtis 1859 ~ 1922

• Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren 1835 ~ 1898

• Lucretia Maria Davidson 1808 ~ 1825

• Charlotte Perkins Gilman 1860 ~ 1935

• Constance Cary Harrison 1843 ~ 1920

• Helen Hunt Jackson 1831 ~ 1885

• Martha Joanna Lamb 1809 ~ 1893

• Emma Lazarus 1849 ~ 1887

• Harriet M. Lothrop 1844 ~ 1924 (Margaret Sidney)

• Lucy A. Mallory 1849

• Annie Jenness Miller 1859 ~

• Maria Mitchell 1818 ~ 1889

• Aubertine Woodward Moore 1841 ~ 1929

• Clara Jessup Moore 1824 ~ 1899

• Maria Morgan 1828 ~ 1892

• Edith R. Mosher

• Mary N. Murfree 1850 ~ 1922 (Charles Egbert Craddock)

• Margaret Fuller Ossoll 1810 ~ 1850

• Abby Hutchinson Patton 1829 ~ 1892

• Annie Smith Peck 1850 ~ 1935

• Almira Lincoln Phelps 1793 ~ 1884

• Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt 1836 ~ 1919

• Emma Winner Rogers

• Kate Sanborn  1839 ~ 1917

• Kate Brownlee Sherwood 1841 ~ 1914

• Matila Coxe Stevenson 1849 ~ 1916

• Emma D. E. Nevitte Southworth 1819 ~ 1899

• Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811 ~ 1896

• Susan Hunter Walker

• Kate Douglass Wiggin 1856 ~ 1923

Women of America

Source: The Part Taken by Women in American History, By Mrs. John A. Logan, Published by The Perry-Nalle Publishing Company, Wilmington, Delaware, 1912.