Learn of nearly 90 women activists in early American history in Spirited American Women: Early Writers, Artists, & Activists. Some were abolitionists, some early suffragettes, some supported their families, some were daring, and all determined. You will know some, but not all!

Read or browse short prose biographies of the women, who were born up to almost the Civil War. They were important painters, sculptors, authors, journalists, editors, preachers, and poets.

In addition to a standard index of all of the women there is a separate Chronological Index of the Black and Native-American Women, as well as a Chronology of Important Events (laws, wars, organizations, and more, noted in the biographies).