Gould, Hannah Flagg (poet, abolitionist, sentimentalist, wrote for children)
Sigourney, Lydia H. (respected sentimental poet)
Hale, Sarah J. (author of "Mary's Lamb"; edited Godey's Lady's Book)
Child, Lydia Maria (prominent abolitionist and fiction writer)
Greenwood, Grace (Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott)
Hosmer, Harriet (sculptor; new the Hawthornes)
Spencer, Lily Martin (painter, domestic scenes)
Fuller, Margaret (major transcenedentalist)
Davis, Rebecca Harding (fiction writer)
Osgood, Francis Sargent (poet, friend of Poe's)
Piatt, Sarah M. (poet)
Mott, Lucretia (activist for women's rights)
Truth, Sojourner
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (poet, fiction writer, afro-american)
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart (postbellum fiction writer)
Jewett, Sarah Orne (major late 19thC fiction writer)