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Women’s History Materials in the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Library The library holds letters, documents, books, pamphlets and photographs by, to and/or about many 19th-century and early 20th-century women, including: SUSAN B. ANTHONY (1820-1906), women’s rights leader CATHARINE BEECHER (1800-1878), author and educator OLYMPIA BROWN (1835-1926), Universalist minister and suffragist GEORGIA CAYVAN (1857-1906), actress PAULINA WRIGHT DAVIS (1813-1876), feminist, reformer and suffragist KATHARINE SEYMOUR DAY (1870-1964), Hartford artist, philanthropist and preservationist ANNA DICKINSON (1842-1932), Civil War orator and lyceum lecturer MARY HALLOCK FOOTE (1847-1938), author and illustrator MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE (1826-1898), women’s rights advocate CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935), feminist, author and lecturer ANGELINA (1805-1879) and SARAH (1792-1873) GRIMKE, abolitionists MARY HALL (1843-1927), Hartford lawyer CAROLINE HEWINS (1848-1926), pioneer children’s librarian ISABELLA BEECHER HOOKER (1822-1907), suffragist and woman’s rights advocate HARRIET ANN JACOBS (c. 1813-1897), freed fugitive slave and abolitionist SARAH ORNE JEWETT (1849-1909), author LUCRETIA COFFIN MOTT (1793-1880), Quaker minister, abolitionist and woman’s rights pioneer CAROLINE SEVERANCE (1820-1914), reformer and woman’s club pioneer LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY (1791-1865), Hartford author ABBY HADDASSAH (1797-1878) and JULIA EVELINA (1792-1886) SMITH, Connecticut suffragists VIRGINIA THRALL SMITH (1836-1903), Hartford city mission and charitable worker ELIZABETH CADY STANTON (1815-1902), woman’s rights leader AUGUSTA STETSON (1842-1928), Christian Science leader LUCY STONE (1818-1893), feminist, abolitionist and suffragist HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1811-1896), author MARY KINGSBURY TALCOTT (1847-1917), artist and genealogist VICTORIAN CLAFLIN WOODHULL (1838-1927), reformer These and other materials are available for use, at no charge, in the Stowe Center Collections, Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. by appointment. Please call the Collections Manager, at (860) 522-9258, ext. 313 or email [email protected]. 77 Forest Street Hartford, CT 06105 • 860.522.9258 • www.HarrietBeecherStowe.org .

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