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George Sand (Encyclopedia Britannica)
An Encyclopedia Britannica entry about French novelist Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dudevant, née Dupin better known by her pen name George Sand.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (Encyclopedia Britannica)
Entry from the Encyclopedia Britannica about Harriet Beecher Stowe, novelist, abolitionist, and lecturer.
Helen Keller (American Foundation for the Blind)
A brief biography of Helen Keller an author, pacifist and political and social activist.
Hildegard of Bingen (Encyclopedia.com)
A biography of Hildegard of Bingen, an abbess who was also an author, playwright, composer, and recorder of nature and medicinal knowledge.
Maria Sibylla Merian Biography (Encyclopedia Britannica)
An entry from the Encyclopedia Brittanica on Maria Sibylla Merian, a naturalist and science illustrator.
Mary Boykin Chesnut (EWB)
A biography of Mary Boykin Chesnut, a South Carolinian writer and diarist whose diaries provide great historical insight into events occurring in the south before, during, and after the Civil War.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (EWB)
A brief biography from the Encyclopedia of World Biography of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author of Frankenstein.
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