Woman Authors

Question 1

Lydia Maria Child

Answer 1

Homobok - tells the story of an interracial marriage. Sentimental novels, focusing on friendship between women. Member of an abolionist movement calling for a social reform.

Question 2

Margaret Fuller

Answer 2

Woman in the 19th century. Urges young women to seek independence from home and family and to seek education.
The editor of the transcendeltalist magazine. First woman allowed to use the Harvard library, published first major feminist work at US.

Question 3

Fanny Fern

Answer 3

Ruth Hall - a semi-autobiography. Focuses on a woman who gradually earns financial independence after her husband died (she becomes a wirter and supports her family).
In real life, Fern’s first husband died and she left the second one (REVOLUTIONARY)

Question 4

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 4

Imitated Maria Child’s themes.