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Elizabeth Phillips Payson Charlestown, MA, 1812-1825 Elizabeth Phillips Payson was a member of the Charlestown (Massachusetts) Female Reading Society from 1812 to 1825. Here she copies facts and excerpts from the three-volume work by Thomas Clarkson (1760...

Caroline Wells Healey Dall Boston, MA, 1837 Suffragist, author, and reformer, Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1822-1912) held classes in literature and morals for adults, spoke on women’s rights, and published many lectures, books, biographies, and reviews...