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Also Known As Eliza Wood Burhans
Born November 17, 1815 • Rensselaer • New York
Died December 15, 1864 (aged 49) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “Woman and Her Era”
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Lucy Stone.
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Sir Alexander Paterson
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Betty Friedan
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Katharine Bement Davis.
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Dorothea Dix
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Clara Shortridge Foltz
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Abigail Hopper Gibbons
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Julia Strudwick Tutwiler
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Martha Platt Falconer
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Maud Ballington Booth.
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Thomas Mott Osborne
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Jessie Bernard
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Jeremy Bentham
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Peter Alekseyevich Kropotkin
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Chrétien Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes
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John Howard
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