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A Woman of the Century:   A Crowdsourcing Project of the Nineteenth and Twenty-First Centuries

Connecticut

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Ashford, CT

POST, Mrs. Caroline Lathrop

November 27, 1824

poet and author

In progress

p. 584

Berlin, CT

WILLARD, Mrs. Emma

February 23, 1787

educator

In progress

p. 777

Bridgeport, CT

HAWLEY, Mrs. Frances Mallette

January 30, 1843

poet and author

Available

p. 365

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Brooklyn, CT

MILLER, Mrs. Emily Huntington

October 22, 1833

author and educator

Available

p. 505-506

Danielsonville, CT

TAYLOR, Mrs. Sarah Katherine Paine

November 19, 1847

evangelist and temperance worker

Available

p. 706-707

Farmington, CT

BOLTON, Mrs. Sarah Knowles

September 15, 1841

author

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p. 101-102

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Franklin, CT

SHEARDOWN, Mrs. Annie Fillmore

singer and musical educator

June 8, 1856

In progress

p. 650

Groton, CT

BAILEY, Mrs. Anna Warner

October 11, 1758

patriot

Available

p. 43

Hartford, CT

COOKE, Mrs. Rose Terry

February 17, 1827

author

Available

p. 204

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Hartford, CT

GREW, Miss Mary

September 1, 1813

anti-slavery agitator and preacher

In progress

p. 341

Killingly, CT

ARNOLD, Mrs. Harriet Pritchard

December 24, 1858

author

Available

p. 32-33

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Killingly, CT

CARPENTER, Miss Ellen M.

November 28, 1836

artist

In progress

p. 152

Ledyard, CT

BENHAM, Mrs. Ida Whipple

January 8, 1849

peace advocate

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p. 73-74

Litchfield, County, CT

ALDRICH, Mrs. Josephine Cables

June 12, 1843

author and philanthropist

Available

p. 16

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Litchfield, CT

HOOKER, Mrs. Isabella Beecher 

February 22, 1822

lecturer and woman suffragist

In progress

p. 390-392

Litchfield, CT

HUNT, Mrs. Mary H.

July 4, 1830

temperance reformer

In progress

p. 404-405

Litchfield, CT

STOWE, Mrs. Harriet Beecher 

June 14, 1811

author

In progress

p. 696-697

Marlborough, CT

HALL, Miss Mary

August 16, 1843

lawyer

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p. 350-351

Middletown, CT

GUSTAFSON, Mrs. Zadel Barnes

March 9, 1841

poet

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p. 346

New Haven, CT

LOOP, Mrs. Jennette Shephard Harrison

March 5, 1840

artist

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p. 472-473

Newton, CT

BARBER, Mrs. Mary Augustine

1789

educator

Available

p. 53

Norwich, CT

COIT, Miss Irene Williams

September 24, 1872

none listed in A Woman of the Century; education reformer and author

Available

p. 189-190

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Norwich, CT

SIGOURNEY, Mrs. Lydia Huntley

September 1, 1791

author

In progress

p. 656-657

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Pomfret, CT

MOULTON, Mrs. Louise Chandler

April 5, 1835

poet and author

In progress

p. 526-527

Redding, Fairfield County, CT

TODD, Miss Adah J.

June 1853

author and educator

Available

p. 717

Southington, CT

KIRK, Mrs. Ellen Olney

November 6, 1842

novelist

Available

p. 439

Stamford, CT

BOWERS, Mrs. D. P.

March 12, 1830

actor

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p. 109-110

Thompson, CT

CASE, Mrs. Marietta Stanley

August 22, 1845

author and temperance advocate

Available

p. 160

Thompson, CT

SHAW, Miss Emma

September 3, 1846

author and traveler

Available

p. 649-650

Tolland, CT

TODD, Mrs. Letitia Willey

February 24, 1835

poet

Available

p. 717-718

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