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Portraits of American Women Writers
- Adams, Hannah
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Ashbridge, Elizabeth
- Augur, Ethel
- Austin, Mary
- Bacon, Delia S.
- Barr, Amelia E.
- Bates, Katharine Lee
- Berbineau, Lorenza Stevens
- Blake, Lillie Devereux
- Bonnin, Gertrude Simmons (Zitkala-Ša)
- Brown, Alice
- Burton, María Amparo Ruiz de
- Cary, Alice
- Cather, Willa
- Child, Lydia Maria
- Chopin, Kate
- Cooke, Rose Terry
- Coolbrith, Ina
- Cooper, Anna Julia
- Dall, Caroline Healey
- Davis, Rebecca Harding
- de Cleyre, Voltairine
- Deland, Margaret
- Dickinson, Emily
- Eaton, Edith Maude (Sui Sin Far)
- Eaton, Winnifred (Onoto Watanna)
- Ellet, Elizabeth Fries Lummis
- Fauset, Jessie
- Field, Kate
- Foote, Mary Anna Hallock
- Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins
- Fuller, Margaret
- Gage, Frances Dana
- Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
- Green, Anna Katharine
- Greenwood, Grace (Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott)
- Grimké, Charlotte Forten
- Hale, Sarah Josepha
- Harland, Marion (Mary Virginia Terhune)
- Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins
- Hawthorne, Sophia
- Higginson, Ella Rhoad(e)s
- Holmes, Mary Jane
- Hopkins, Pauline Elizabeth
- Howe, Julia Ward
- Jackson, Helen Hunt
- Jacobs, Harriet
- Jewett, Sarah Orne
- Knight, Sarah Kemble
- Larcom, Lucy
- Murfree, Mary Noailles
- Osgood, Frances Sargent
- Parton, Sara Payson Willis (Fanny Fern)
- Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart
- Piatt, Sarah
- Porter, Katherine Anne
- Quintasket, Christine (Mourning Dove or Humishuma)
- Rankin, Mary
- Rowlandson, Mary
- Sedgwick, Catharine Maria
- Sigourney, Lydia Howard Huntley
- Southworth, E. D. E. N.
- Spofford, Harriet Prescott
- Stoddard, Elizabeth
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher
- Thaxter, Celia
- Todd, Mabel Loomis
- Wharton, Edith
- Wilson, Harriet
- Winnemucca, Sarah
- Wood, Sally Sayward Barrell Keating
- Woolson, Constance Fenimore
- Yezierska, Anzia
Here we have taken care to collect and display only those images whose rights owners have granted us permission to do so, either gratis, or for a small fee. We have not included images still under copyright protection.
Consistent with Legacy's interest in archival research, we have gathered for each author a list of relevant archives (with electronic links to each) where scholars may consult that author's papers.
We will continue to expand the number of writers featured here. We invite you to help us expand this resource by submitting information about and/or images of American women writers. Our chronological scope matches that of the journal (from early America to the mid-twentieth century).
Aware that images of early American women writers are often not available, we will welcome your suggestions about other types of relevant images we might include on these pages.
The images presented here have been rightfully acquired from their respective rights holders. If you would like to reproduce an image shown here, please contact the rights holder indicated. Please do not cite this gallery as your source of these images.
The image of Mathew Brady's Photographic Gallery comes from the Library of Congress and was originally a woodcut image in Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper. See http://memory.loc.gov/.
Information presented here was gathered by Lisa M. Thomas, University of California, San Diego. Ashley Hoffman designed the page layouts. Gary Hoffman programmed the data display. Legacy thanks all three for their expertise.
Legacy is also profoundly grateful to the Division of Humanities at the University of California San Diego whose financial support made this project possible.