Women's History
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Overview Articles
Abolitionists
Women's Rights Activists
Reformers
- Jane Addams
- Fanny Coppin
- Antoinette Blackwell
- Dorothea Dix
- Harriet Jacobs
- Mary Livermore
- Ida Wells-Barnett
Writers with a Cause
Business and Industry
- Polly Adler
- Sylvia Beach
- Nellie Bly
- Bricktop
- Georgia Clark
- Jacqueline Cochran
- Hetty Green
- Jennie Grossinger
- Helena Rubinstein
- Elizabeth Timothy