Harvard University Library Open Collections Program: Women Working Open Collections Program Harvard University Library Women Working Women Working

Brief biographical sketches of individuals who have made significant contributions to Women Working or whose manuscripts, diaries, letters, or archival materials have been digitized.

Abbott, EdithSocial Worker and Educator
Addams, JaneReformer
Barton, ClaraFounder of the American Red Cross
Beard, Mary RitterHistorian and Campaigner
Beecher, CatharineAuthor and Women's Rights Activist
Blackwell, ElizabethPhysician and Author
Bosworth, Louise MarionResearcher
Brandeis, Louis D.Lawyer and Supreme Court Justice
Campbell, Helen StuartWriter
Chadwick, James R.Doctor and Women's Health Expert
Fiske, Minnie MaddernActress
Fleming, Williamina Paton StevensAstronomer
Gay, E. JanePhotographer
Gilder, Jeannette LeonardJournalist
Goldmark, Josephine ClaraAuthor and Legal Expert
Greene, H.Farmer
Grimke, Sarah and Grimke, Angelina WeldAbolitionists and Women's Rights Activists
Henry, AliceLabor Reformer
Holley, MariettaAuthor and Humorist
Howe, Julia WardWriter and Rights Activist
Hull, Josephine SherwoodActress
Jacobi, Mary PutnamPhysician
Kelley, FlorenceReformer and Activist
Kemble, FannyActress
Kingsley, DeliaSchool Teacher
McCulloch, Catharine WaughLawyer
Mitchell, Maria Astronomer
Myrick, Hanna GliddenPhysician
O'Hare, Kate RichardsSocialist and Anti-War Activist
Peabody, Francis GreenwoodMinister and Harvard Faculty Member
Pinkham, LydiaEntrepreneur
Richards, EllenChemist
Sanger, MargaretNurse and Birth Control Activist
Schoedler, LillianSecretary
Shouse, Catherine FileneResearcher and Philanthropist
Stanton, Elizabeth CadyReformer and Suffragist
Stone, LucyReformer and Suffragist
Tarbell, IdaJournalist and Lecturer
Wheeler, CandaceInterior Designer
Willard, Emma HartEducational Reformer
Willard, Frances ElizabethTemperance Leader and Reformer
Woodhull, VictoriaWomen's Rights Activist
Wright, Carroll DavidsonStatistician and Labor Expert
Zakrzewska, Dr. Marie ElizabethPhysician and Medical Educator