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Born Before 20th Century (Chronological):

• Marguerite d'Youville, 1701-1771 (Canada)
• Abigail Adams, 1744-1818 (U.S.A.: MA)
  Adams National Historic Site
  Abigail Adams Historical Society
  Abigail Adams : Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober
  Portia : The World of Abigail Adams by Edith B. Gelles
• Olympe de Gouge, 1748-1793 (France)
• Tabitha Moffatt Brown, 1780-1858 (U.S.A.: MA, OR)
• Elizabeth Fry, 1780-1845 (U.K.)
  Another biography
• Mary Fildes, ?-1875 (U.K.)
• Dorothea Dix, 1802-1887 (U.S.A.: ME, NJ, IL)
  Asylum, Prison, and Poorhouse : The Writings and Reform Work of Dorothea Dix in Illinois by Dorothea Lynde Dix, David L. Lightner (Editor)
• Clara Brown, 1803-1885 (U.S.A.: VA, MO, CO)
  Aunt Clara Brown by Linda Lowery, Janice Lee Porter (Illustrator)
• Pauline Roland, 1805-1852 (France)
• Mary Jane Seacole, 1805-1881 (Jamaica)
• Caroline Chisholm, 1808-1877 (U.K., Australia)
• Laura S. Haviland, 1808-1898 (Canada, U.S.A.:N.Y., MI)
  The Underground Railroad
  Womans Life Work by Laura S. Haviland
• Ernestine Louise Rose, 1810-1892 (Poland, U.K., U.S.A.: N.Y.)
• Melchora Aquino, 1812-1919 (Philippines)
• Harriet Jacobs, 1813-1897 (U.S.A.: NC, NY, DC, GA, MA)
  Another profile
  Another profile
  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (A Harvest/Hbj Book) by Harriet A. Jacobs, Lydia Maria Francis Child, Linda Brent, Walter Teller (Designer)
• Mathilde Franziska Anneke, 1817-1884 (Germany, U.S.A.:WI)
• Louise Aston, 1818-1871 (Germany)
• Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley, 1818-1907 (U.S.A.: VA, NC, MO, MD, DC)
• Bridget "Biddy" Mason, 1818-1891 (U.S.A.: MS, CA)
  Open Hands, Open Heart: The Story of Biddy Mason by Deidre D. Robinson, Albert T. Cooper III (Illustrator)
• Clara Barton, 1821-1921 (U.S.A.: MA, NJ, DC)
  Another profile
  Clara Barton Homestead
  Clara Barton, Founder of the American Red Cross by Augusta Stevenson, Frank Giacoia (Illustrator)
  A Woman of Valor : Clara Barton and the Civil War by Stephen B. Oates
• Frances Power Cobbe, 1822-1904 (Ireland)
• Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell, 1825-1921 (U.S.A.: NY, NJ)
  Antoinette Blackwell Home
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 1825-1911 (U.S.A.: MD, OH, PA)
  A Brighter Coming Day; A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader by Frances S. Foster (Editor)
  Minnie's Sacrifice, Sowing and Reaping, Trial and Triumph : Three Rediscovered Novels by Frances E.W. Harper by Frances Smith Foster (Editor) et al.
• Ellen Smith Craft, 1826-1891 (U.S.A.: GA; U.K.)
  Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom : The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery by William Craft, Ellen Craft, R. J. M. Blackett
• Josephine Butler, 1828-1906 (U.K.)
• Catherine Booth, 1829-1890 (U.K.)
• Mary Ann Harris Gay, 1829-1918 (U.S.A.: GA)
• Helen Hunt Jackson, 1830-1885 (U.S.A.: MA)
  A Century of Dishonor : A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings With Some of the Indian Tribes by Helen Hunt Jackson, Valerie Sherer Mathes
  Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy by Valerie Sherer Mathes, Valerie S. Mathers
  Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
• Mary Harris (Mother) Jones, 1830-1930 (Ireland, Canada, U.S.A.: TN, IL)
  Mother Jones Speaks : Speeches and Writings of a Working-Class Fighter by Philip S. Foner (Editor), Mary Harris Jones
• Louise Michel, 1830-1895 (France)
• Amelia Stone Quinton, 1833-1926 (U.S.A.: NY, PA)
• Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton, 1835-1930 (U.S.A.: GA)
  Another profile
  Country Life in Georgia in the Days of My Youth by Rebecca L. Felton
• Victoria Claflin Woodhull, 1838-1927 (U.S.A.: OH, NY; UK)
• Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, 1839-1898 (U.S.A.: NY)
• Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards, 1842-1911 (U.S.A.: MA)
  Another profile
  Another profile
  Ellen Swallow Richards Home
• Josephine Ruffin, 1842-1924 (U.S.A.: MA)
  Another profile
• Josephine Shaw Lowell, 1843-1905 (U.S.A.: MA, NY)
  Another profile
  Unsentimental Reformer : The Life of Josephine Shaw Lowell by Joan Waugh
  Philanthropic Work of Josephine Shaw Lowell, Containing a Biographical Sketch of Her Life Together With a Selection of Her Public Papers and Private Letters by William R. Stewart
• Bertha von Suttner, 1843-1914 (Austria)
• Charlotte Despard, 1844-1939 (U.K.)
• Annie Wood Besant, 1847-1933 (U.K., India)
  Another profile
• Anna Howard Shaw, 1847-1919 (U.K., U.S.A.: MI)
  Another profile
  A Voice from the Woods : The Story of Anna Howard Shaw by Don Brown
• (Marie-Anne) Hubertine Auclert, 1848-1914 (France)
• Nellie Peters Black, 1851-1919 (U.S.A.: GA)
• Lucy Parsons, c.1853-1942 (U.S.A.: TX, IL)
  Another profile
• Utako Shimodo, ca.1854-ca.1934 (Japan)
• Isabella Ford, 1855-1924 (U.K.)
• Eleanor Marx, 1855-1898 (U.K.)
• Julia Clifford Lathrop, 1858-1932 (U.S.A.: IL)
• Marie Corbett, 1859-1932 (U.K.)
• Jane Addams, 1860-1935 (U.S.A.: IL)
  Another profile
  Twenty Years at Hull-House : With Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams et al.
  Jane Addams : Pioneer Social Worker by Charnan Simon
• Katharine Bement Davis, 1860-1935 (U.S.A.: NY)
• Juliette Gordon Low, 1860-1927 (U.S.A.: GA)
  Daisy and the Girl Scouts : The Story of Juliette Gordon Low by Fern G. Brown et al.
• Henrietta Szold, 1860-1945 (U.S.A.: MD; Israel)
  Another profile
  Another profile
  Daughter of My People : Henrietta Szold and Hadassah by Hazel Krantz
  Lost Love : The Untold Story of Henrietta Szold : Unpublished Diary and Letters by Henrietta Szold et al.
• Bhikaji Cama, 1861-1936 (India)
• Julia Anna Flisch, 1861-1941 (U.S.A.: GA)
• Margaret Haley, 1861-1939 (U.S.A.: IL)
  Another profile
• Selina Cooper, 1864-1946 (U.K.)
• Kate Shelley, c.1866-1912 (U.S.A.: IA)
  Another profile
  Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express by Margaret K. Wetterer, Karen Ritz (Illustrator)
• Mary Burnette Talbert, 1866-1923 (U.S.A.: OH, AR, NY)
• Emily Greene Balch, 1867-1961 (U.S.A.: MA)
  Nobel Peace Prize 1946
• Emma Goldman, 1869-1940 (Russia, U.S.A.: IL; U.K.)
  Another profile
  Another profile
  Another profile
  Another profile
  Living My Life (vol.1) by Emma Goldman
  Living My Life (vol.2) by Emma Goldman
• Alice Hamilton, 1869-1970 (U.S.A.: NY, IN, IL, MA)
  Alice Hamilton, a Life in Letters by Barbara Sicherman, Alice Hamilton (Photographer)
• Rosa Luxemburg, 1871-1919 (Poland, Germany)
• Selena Sloan Butler, 1872-1964 (U.S.A.: GA)
• Rheta Dorr, 1872-1948 (U.S.A.: NY)
• Jessie Wallace Hughan, 1875-1955 (U.S.A.: NY)
• Qiu Jin, 1875-1907 (China)
• Edith Abbott, 1876-1957 (U.S.A.: NE, IL)
• Sibilla Aleramo, 1876-1960 (Italy)
• Blanche Ames Ames, 1878-1969 (U.S.A.: MA)
• Raden Adjeng Kartini, 1879-1904 (Indonesia)
  Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Adjeng Kartini
• Margaret Sanger, 1879-1966 (U.S.A.: NY)
  Another profile
  Margaret Sanger Clinic
  Breaking Barriers : The Feminist Revolution from Susan B. Anthony to Margaret Sanger to Betty Friedan by Jules Archer
• Huda Shaarawi, 1879-1947 (Egypt)
  Harem Years : The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 by Huda Shaarawi, Margot Badran (Editor)
• Helen Adams Keller, 1880-1968 (U.S.A.: AL, MA)
  Another profileS
  Story of My Life by Helen Keller
  Helen and Teacher : The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy by Joseph P. Lash
• Margery Corbett Ashby, 1882-1981 (U.K.)
• Frances Perkins, 1882-1965 (U.S.A.: MA, NY)
• Halide (Edib) Adivar, 1883-1964 (Turkey)
• Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962 (U.S.A.: NY)
  Another biography
  Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
  No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt
• Cicely Corbett Fisher, 1885-1959 (U.K.)
• Louise Fletcher Chase, 1888-1974 (U.S.A.: NY, MA)
• Olave Baden-Powell, 1889-1977 (U.K.)
• Dicksie Bradley Bandy, 1890-1971 (U.S.A.: GA)
• Corrie ten Boom, 1892-1983 (Netherlands)
  Corrie ten Boom House
• Pearl S. Buck, 1892-1973 (U.S.A.)
• Catherine de Hueck Doherty, 1896-1985 (Russia, Canada, U.S.A.: NY)
• Tina Modotti, 1896-1942 (Italy, Mexico)
  Another profile
  Another profile
• Dorothy Day, 1897-1980 (U.S.A.: NY, IL)
  Dorothy Day Library on the Web
  Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin and the Catholic Worker Movement
• Septima Poinsette Clark, 1898-1987 (U.S.A.: SC)

Born 20th Century (Alphabetical):

• Bella Abzug (U.S.A.: NY)
  Another profile
  Another profile
• Jane Alexander (U.S.A.: MA)
  Filmography
• Gladys Aylward (U.K., China)
  Another profile
  Gladys Aylward : The Adventure of a Lifetime (Christian Heroes, Then & Now) by Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
• Joan Baez (U.S.A.: NY, CA, MA)
  Another profile
• Maryam Ibrahim Babangida (Nigeria)
• Ella Baker (U.S.A.: VA, NY, GA)
  Another profile
  Ella Baker: Freedom Bound by Joanne Grant
• Joyce Banda (Malawi)
• Judi Bari (U.S.A.: MD, CA)
• Anne Bashkiroff (U.S.A.: CA)
• Joyce Baskins (U.S.A.: PA)
• Daisy Gatson Bates (U.S.A.: AR)
  The Daisy Bates Papers
• Lillian Kennedy Beam (U.S.A.: OH, CA)
• Ela Bhatt (India)
  Another profile
• Kiran Bedi (India)
  Another profile
• Rebecca Boone (U.S.A.: AL)
• Barbara Pierce Bush (U.S.A.: NY, TX)
  Another profile
• Helen Caldicott (Australia, U.S.A.: NY)
  More Links
  A Desperate Passion : An Autobiography by Helen Broinowski Caldicott
  If You Love This Planet : A Plan to Heal the Earth by Helen Caldicott
• Elaine Carter (U.S.A.: CA)
• Rosalynn Carter (U.S.A.:CA)
  Another profile
  First Lady from Plains by Rosalynn Carter
  Helping Yourself Help Others : A Book for Caregivers by Rosalynn Carter, Susan K. Golant (Contributor)
• Linda Chavez-Thompson (U.S.A.: TX, DC)
  Another profile
• Hélène Cixous (Algeria, France)
• Hillary Rodham Clinton (U.S.A.: IL, AR, NY)
  Another profile
  It Takes a Village : And Other Lessons Children Teach Us by Hillary Rodham Clinton
  Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton
• Celina Cossa (Mozambique)
• Mairead Corrigan (Northern Ireland)
• Ann Armstrong Dailey (U.S.A.: VA)
• Angela Davis (U.S.A.: AL, CA)
  1970 Interview with Angela Davis
  Angela Davis : An Autobiography by Angela Yvonne Davis
• Dorothy DeBolt (U.S.A.: CA)
  Another profile
• Princess Diana (U.K.)
  Another profile
  Another profile
  Diana : Portrait of a Princess by Jayne Fincher, Judy Wade (Contributor)
  Diana: A Celebration (VHS)
• Barbara J. Easterling (U.S.A.: OH)
• Marian Wright Edelman (U.S.A.: SC, MS, DC)
  Another profile
  "Standing Up For The World's Children: Leave No Child Behind" (Gifts of Speech)
  The Measure of Our Success : A Letter to My Children and Yours by Marian Wright Edelman
  Marian Wright Edelman : The Making of a Crusader by Beatrice Siegel
• Eka Esu-Williams (Nigeria)
• Anita Figueredo (Costa Rica, U.S.A.: CA)
• Ruth First (South Africa)
• Marilyn Fitterman (U.S.A.: NY)
• Pauline M. Foster (U.S.A.: CA)
• Sonia Pressman Fuentes (Germany, U.S.A.: NY, FL, MD)
• Maneka Gandhi (India)
  Interview with Maneka Gandhi
• Bertha Gilkey (U.S.A.: IL, MO)
• Joy Glenner (U.S.A.: CA)
• Tipper Gore (U.S.A.: VA, TN)
  Picture This; A Visual Diary by Tipper Gore
  Tipper Gore : A Voice for the Voiceless (Achievers) by Joann Bren Guernsey
• Germaine Greer (Australia, U.K.)
  Another profile
  A Groupie in Women's Lib by Robert Greenfield
• Ruth Ellen Gruber (U.S.A.: PA, NY; Italy)
  Another profile
  Haven : The Dramatic Story of 1000 World War II Refugees and How They Came to America by Ruth Gruber
  Ahead of Time: My Early Years as a Foreign Correspondent by Ruth Gruber
• Elinor Guggenheimer (U.S.A.: NY)
• Clara Hale (U.S.A.: PA, NY)
  Another profile
  Clara Hale : Mother to Those Who Needed One (Everyone Contributes) by Bob Italia, Rosie Wallner (Editor)
• Mildred Harnack (U.S.A.: WI; Germany)
  Another profile
• Barbara Harris (U.S.A.: PA)
  Another profile
• Elaine K. Harris (U.S.A.: NY)
• Sachiko Hashimoto (Japan)
• Audrey Hepburn (Belgium, U.K., U.S.A., Switzerland)
  Another biography
  The Official Audrey Hepburn Web Site
  Elizabeth's Audrey Hepburn Page
• Dolores Huerta (U.S.A.: NM, CA)
  Another profile
• Christine Jean (France)
  Another profile
• Cathy Keating (U.S.A.: OK)
• Princess Yasmin Aga Khan (U.S.A.)
• Mildred O. Knopf (U.S.A.: NY, CA)
• Eve Curie Labouisse (France)
• Candy Lightner (U.S.A.: CA)
  Another profile
• Jeannette Lofas (U.S.A.: NY)
• Wangari Muta Maathai (Kenya)
• Graça Simbine Machel (Mozambique)
• Joanna Macy (U.S.A.: CA)
• Colleen McCrory (Canada)
• Gloria McMillan (U.S.A.: CA)
• Meena (Afghanistan)
• Kate Millett (U.S.A.: NY)
  The Politics of Cruelty : An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment by Kate Millett
• Joyce F. Mungherera (Uganda)
• Queen Noor (Jordan)
• Keiko Ochiai (Japan)
• Esther Afua Ocloo (Ghana)
• Molara Ogundipe-Leslie (Nigeria, U.S.A.)
  Re-Creating Ourselves : African Women & Critical Transformations
• Chief Bisi Ogunleye (Nigeria)
• Medha Patkar (India)
• Peace Pilgrim (U.S.A.)
  Peace Pilgrim : Her Life and Work in Her Own Words by Peace Pilgrim
  Steps Toward Inner Peace : Harmonious Principles for Human Living by Peace Pilgrim
• Mamphela Ramphele (Zaire)
  Installation photos
  Interview with Charlayne Hunter-Gault
• Rachel Robinson (U.S.A.: NY)
  Jackie Robinson : An Intimate Portrait by Rachel Robinson et al.
• Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt)
  Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawal El Saadawi
  The Innocence of the Devil by Nawal El Saadawi
• Jehan Sadat (Egypt)
• Phyllis Schlafly (U.S.A.: MO, DC)
• Sophie Scholl (Germany)
• Felice N. Schwartz (U.S.A.:NY)
  Another profile
• Donna Shalala (U.S.A.: OH, NY, FL)
  Another profile
• Vandana Shiva (India)
  Interview with Dr. Shiva
  Biopiracy : The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge by Vandana Shiva
  Monocultures of the Mind : Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology by Vandana Shiva
• Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver (U.S.A.:MA)
• Mimi Silbert (U.S.A.: CA)
  Another profile
• Linda Smith (U.S.A.: CA)
• Deborah Szekely (U.S.A.: DC)
• Mother Teresa of Calcutta (India, Albania)
  Another profile
• Sally B. Thornton (U.S.A.: CA)
• Urvashi Vaid (India, U.S.A.: NY, MA, DC)
• Sima Wali (Afghanistan, U.S.A.: DC)
  Statement by Sima Wali
  Speaker discusses oppression of Afghan women
• Faye Wattleton (U.S.A.: MO, OH, IL)
• Mary Brent Wehrli (U.S.A.: CA)
• Betty Williams (Northern Ireland)
• Jody Williams (U.S.A.: VT)
  Nobel Laureate's Long Trip From Vermont Farm to Fame
  A Global Ban On Landmines: Address To The Treaty Signing Conference And Mine Action Forum by Jody Williams
  After Guns Fall Silent : The Enduring Legacy of Landmines by Shawn Roberts, Jody Williams

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