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ANNA ELIZABETH DICKINSON (1842– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 184 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANNA See also:ELIZABETH See also:DICKINSON (1842– )  , See also:American author and lecturer, was See also:born, of Quaker parentage, at See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 28th of See also:October 1842 . She was educated at the See also:Friends' See also:Free School in Philadelphia, and was for a See also:time a teacher . In 1861 she obtained a clerkship in the See also:United States See also:mint, but was removed for criticizing See also:General McClellan at a public See also:meeting . She had gradually become widely known as an eloquent and persuasive public See also:speaker, one of the first of her See also:sex to See also:mount the See also:platform to discuss the burning questions of the See also:hour . Before the See also:Civil See also:War she lectured on See also:anti-See also:slavery topics, during the war she toured the See also:country on behalf of the Sanitary See also:Commission, and also lectured on reconstruction, See also:temperance and woman's rights . She wrote several plays, including The See also:Crown of Thorns (1876); See also:Mary Tudor (1878), in which she appeared in the See also:title role; See also:Aurelian (1878); and An American Girl (188o), successfully acted by Fanny See also:Davenport . She also published a novel, Which See also:Answer ? (1868) ; A Paying Investment, a Plea for See also:Education (1876); and A Ragged See also:Register of See also:People, Places and Opinions (1879) .

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