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- Was known as the best-read person in New England, male or female
- First woman allowed to use the library at Harvard College
- Wrote the first feminist book, called "Woman in the 19th Century" that explained the role woman had played in America and how it could be improved
- Inspired later women's rights advocates like Susan B Anthony and may have inspired the Seneca Falls Convention
- Criticized by some for being a "talker" rather than an activist
Served as editor of the transcendentalist journal "The Dial"
- Visited Sing Sing Prison in New York and interviewed women prisoners
- Wrote about how the American West had treated Native Americans unfairly, but that "the Indian obstinately refused to be civilized."
- Referred to "this cancer of slavery" when supporting African-American rights
- Visited Brook Farm commune but never became a member
- Became first full time book reviewer for the New York Tribune and the first female editor of that newspaper
- Traveled to Europe as the first female foreign correspondent for the newspaper; while overseas she met and married an Italian revolutionary.
- Believed women could have any job they wished, rather than doing "woman's work" like teaching
- First woman allowed to use the library at Harvard College
- Wrote the first feminist book, called "Woman in the 19th Century" that explained the role woman had played in America and how it could be improved
- Inspired later women's rights advocates like Susan B Anthony and may have inspired the Seneca Falls Convention
- Criticized by some for being a "talker" rather than an activist
Served as editor of the transcendentalist journal "The Dial"
- Visited Sing Sing Prison in New York and interviewed women prisoners
- Wrote about how the American West had treated Native Americans unfairly, but that "the Indian obstinately refused to be civilized."
- Referred to "this cancer of slavery" when supporting African-American rights
- Visited Brook Farm commune but never became a member
- Became first full time book reviewer for the New York Tribune and the first female editor of that newspaper
- Traveled to Europe as the first female foreign correspondent for the newspaper; while overseas she met and married an Italian revolutionary.
- Believed women could have any job they wished, rather than doing "woman's work" like teaching
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