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Also Known As Eliza Wood Burhans
Born November 17, 1815 • Rensselaer • New York
Died December 15, 1864 (aged 49) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “Woman and Her Era”
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Lucy Stone.
Lucy Stone
American suffragist
Lewis Edward Lawes
American penologist
Sir Alexander Paterson
British penologist
Kate Richards O’Hare Cunningham
American reformer
Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American author and social reformer
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan
American author and feminist
Katharine Bement Davis.
Katharine Bement Davis
American penologist
Dorothea Dix
Dorothea Dix
American social reformer
Clara Shortridge Foltz
American lawyer and reformer
Abigail Hopper Gibbons
American social reformer
Julia Strudwick Tutwiler
American educator and reformer
Martha Platt Falconer
American social worker
Josephine Sophia White Griffing
American abolitionist and suffragist
Maud Ballington Booth.
Maud Ballington Booth
American religious leader
Thomas Mott Osborne
Thomas Mott Osborne
American penologist
Jessie Bernard
American sociologist
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
British philosopher and economist
Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin
Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin
Russian revolutionary
Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes
French lawyer
John Howard
John Howard
British philanthropist and social reformer