Sarah Knowles Bolton

Included: Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Smauel L. Clemens (Mark Twain), Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, carl Sandburg, Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O'Neill, Stephen Vincent Benet.

Biographical sketches of Harriet Martineau, Dorthea Dix, Jenny Lind and others are presented to illustrate the impact of women on society.