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| Sappho - Lesbos, Ancient Greece c. 630-570 BCE |
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| Sappho / lyric poet |
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| Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary & polymath |
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| Hildegard of Bingen (d.1179) |
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| Christine de Pisan + Queen Isabeau (1364-1430) Italian/French author |
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| Olympes de Gouge (d.1791) Feminist, activist, playwright, abolitionist |
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| Olympes de Gouge (1748-1791) |
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| Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights |
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| Mary Wollstonecraft (d.1797) |
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| Lucretia Coffin Mott 1793-1880 American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights, activist and social reformer. Co-authored The Declaration of Sentiments |
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| Seneca Falls Convention 1848 |
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Seneca Falls Convention 1848
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| 300 men & women gathered at the Convention |
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| Elizabeth Cady Stanton - 1815-1902 She is credited with initiating the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. Stanton was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association 1892-1900. |
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| Carrie Chapman Catt 1859-1947 Leader in American women's suffrage, she campaigned for the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which gave US women the right to vote in 1920. |
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| born Isabella Baumfree > Sojourner Truth c. 1797-1883 African American abolitionist + women's rights activist |
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| Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed in 1920 |
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| Contemporary play of Seneca Falls Convention |
