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Influential Female Writers of the Day
This portion of the site is designed to introduce you to a few of the non-Canadian female writers of the day  who had an influence on our ancestors during the Victorian Era

From
romance novels to social diatribes; poetry to cookbooks; self-help books to inspirationals; they read them all. 

This is in no way a complete list, but a cross-section of the most notable.
American
Anne M.F. Annan

Catherine Beecher

Emily Chabbuck

Lydia Maria Child

Elizabeth Ellet

Emma Embury

Sarah Fuller
Catherine Sedgwick

Lydia Sigourney

Anne Stephens

Sarah Helen Whitman
Angleina Grimke

Harriet Jacobs

Eliza Leslie

Frances Sargent Osgood

Sara Willis Parton
Other
Jane Austen

Anne Lindsay Barnard

Anne Bronte

Charlotte Bronte

Emily Bronte

Maria Edgeworth
Harriet Martineau
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