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

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