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Born Before 20th Century:

• Mary Astell, 1668-1731 (Great Britain)
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  The Celebrated Mary Astell : An Early English Feminist (Women in Culture and Society) by Ruth Perry
  Astell : Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Patricia Springborg (Editor), Mary Astell
• Abigail Adams, 1744-1818 (U.S.A.)
  Another biography
  Adams National Historic Site
  Abigail Adams : Witness to a Revolution by Natalie S. Bober
  Portia : The World of Abigail Adams by Edith B. Gelles
• Judith Sargent Murray, 1751-1820 (U.S.A.)
  Bibiography
  Judith Sargent Murray : A Brief Biography With Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) by Sheila L. Skemp
  The Gleaner by Judith Sargent Murray, Nina Baym (Designer)
• Mary Wollstonecraft, 1759-1797 (Great Britain)
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  The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft by Claire Tomalin
  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, Barbara Taylor (Introduction)
• Lucretia Coffin Mott, 1793-1880 (U.S.A.)
• Frances Wright, 1795-1852 (Great Britain, U.S.A.)
  Fanny Wright : Rebel in America by Celia Morris, Celia Morris Eckhardt
  In Common Cause : The 'Conservative' Frances Trollope and the 'Radical' Francis Wright by Susan S. Kissel
• Sojourner Truth, 1797-1883 (U.S.A.: NY, MA, KS, DC, MI)
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  Ain't I a Woman. Speech by Sojourner Truth delivered in 1851 at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio
  Sojourner Truth : Ain't I A Woman? by Pat McKissack et al.
  Sojourner Truth : A Life, a Symbol by Nell Irvin Painter
• Lydia Maria Child, 1802-1880 (U.S.A.)
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• The Grimke Sisters, Sarah, 1792-1873 and Angelina, 1805-1879 (U.S.A.)
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  The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina : Pioneers for Women's Rights and Abolition by Gerda Lerner
  The Feminist Thought of Sarah Grimke by Gerda Lerner, Sarah Moore Grimke
• Abby Kelley Foster, 1810-1887 (U.S.A.)
  Authority, Autonomy and Radical Commitment : Stephen and Abby Kelley Foster by Joel Bernard
• Margaret Fuller, 1810-1850 (U.S.A.)
  Margaret Fuller House
  Margaret Fuller : A Brief Biography With Documents by Eve Kornfeld
  Margaret Fuller's New York Journalism : A Biographical Essay and Key Writings by Margaret Fuller, Catherine C. Mitchell (Editor)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton, 1815-1902 (U.S.A.)
  Another biography
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton House
  Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions. Speech given by Elizabeth Cady Stanton at the Seneca Falls Convention, 1848.
  Solitude of Self. Speech given January 18, 1892 to the Congressional Judiciary Committee.
  The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Women's Liberty by Kathryn Cullen-DuPont, John Anthony Scott (Editor)
• Amelia Jenks Bloomer, 1818-1894 (U.S.A.)
  Amelia Bloomer : A Photo-Illustrated Biography by Mary J. Lickteig
  
• Lucy Stone, 1818-1893 (U.S.A.)
  Lucy Stone : Speaking Out for Equality by Andrea Moore Kerr
  Friends and Sisters : Letters Between Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown Blackwell, 1846-93 by Carol Lasser, Marlene Deahl Merrill (Editor)
• Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 (U.S.A.)
  Another biography
  Samuel Gridley and Julia Howe House
  The Hungry Heart : The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe by Gary Williams
  Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Maud Howe Elliott et al.
• Susan B. Anthony, 1820-1906 (U.S.A.: MA, NY, PA)
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  Susan B. Anthony by Barbara Weisberg
  The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony Reader : Correspondence, Writings, Speeches by Ellen Carol Dubois (Editor), Gerda Lerner
• Harriet Tubman, 1820-1913 (U.S.A.: MD, PA, NY)
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  Harriet Tubman Home for the Aged
  Harriet Tubman : Conductor on the Underground Railroad by Ann Petry
  Harriet Tubman by Marian Taylor et al.
• Mary Shadd Cary, 1823-1893 (U.S.A.: DE, DC; Canada)
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  Mary Ann Shadd Cary : The Black Press and Protest in the Nineteenth Century by Jane Rhodes
• Matilda Joslyn Gage, 1826-1898 (U.S.A.)
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  Woman, Church and State by Matilda Joslyn Gage
• Lydia Becker, 1827-1890 (Great Britain)
• Barbara Bodichon, 1827-1891 (Great Britain)
• Emily Davies, 1830-1921 (Great Britain)
  The Higher Education of Women 1866 by Emily Davies
• Helen Hunt Jackson, 1830-1885 (U.S.A.)
  A Century of Dishonor : A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings With Some of the Indian Tribes by Helen Hunt Jackson, Valerie Sherer Mathes
  Helen Hunt Jackson and Her Indian Reform Legacy by Valerie Sherer Mathes, Valerie S. Mathers
  Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson
• Mary Harris (Mother) Jones, 1830-1930 (U.S.A.)
  Another biography
  Mother Jones Speaks : Speeches and Writings of a Working-Class Fighter by Philip S. Foner (Editor), Mary Harris Jones
• Dorothea Beale, 1831-1906 (Great Britain)
• Amelia Stone Quinton, 1833-1926 (U.S.A.)
• Olympia Brown, 1835-1926 (U.S.A.)
  Olympia Brown : The Battle for Equality by Charlotte Cote
  Suffrage and Religious Principle : Speeches and Writings of Olympia Brown by Dana Greene (Editor)
• Matilde Bajer, 1840-1934 (Denmark)
• Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, 1847-1929 (Great Britain)
  Another biography
• Louisa Lawson, 1848-1920 (Australia)
• Annie Smith Peck, 1850-1935 (U.S.A.)
• Alva Vanderbilt-Belmont, 1853-1933 (U.S.A.)
  Alva, That Vanderbilt-Belmont Woman by Margaret Rector
• Isabella Ford, 1855-1924 (Great Britain)
  Isabella Ford by June Hannam
• Fannie Barrier Williams, 1855-1944 (U.S.A.: NY, IL)
  Another biography
• Anita Augspurg, 1857-1943 (Germany, Switzerland)
• Alice Stone Blackwell, 1857-1950 (U.S.A.)
• Frances Balfour, 1858-1930 (Great Britain)
• The Pankhurst Family, Emmeline 1858-1928, Christabel and Sylvia (Great Britain)
  Sylvia Pankhurst; Sexual Politics and Political Activism
• Carrie Chapman Catt, 1859-1947 (U.S.A.)
  Another biography
  Carrie Chapman Catt : A Public Life by Jacqueline Van Voris
  Carrie Catt : Feminist Politician by Robert Booth Fowler
• Marie Corbett, 1859-1932 (Great Britain)
• Jane Addams, 1860-1935 (U.S.A.)
  Twenty Years at Hull-House : With Autobiographical Notes by Jane Addams et al.
  Jane Addams : Pioneer Social Worker by Charnan Simon
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1860-1935 (U.S.A.)
  The Abridged Diaries of Charlotte Perkins Gilman by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Denise D. Knight (Editor)
  The Yellow Wallpaper : And Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  Herland and Selected Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Barbara H. Solomon (Editor)
• Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, 1862-1931 (U.S.A.: MS, TN, IL)
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  Crusade for Justice; The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells by Ida B. Wells, Alfreda M. Duster (Editor)
  Ida B. Wells-Barnett : Crusader Against Lynching by Elaine Slivinski Lisandrelli
• Mary Church Terrell, 1863-1954 (U.S.A.: TN, OH, DC)
  Another profile
  Colored Woman in a White World (African-American Women Writers, 1910-1940) by Mary Church Terrell, Nellie Y. McKay (Introduction)
  Mary Church Terrell : Leader for Equality by Pat McKissack, Ned O. (Illustrator), Patrici McKissack, Ned Ostendorf (Illustrator), Fredrick L. McKissack (Contributor)
• Grace Wilbur Trout, 1864-1955 (U.S.A.)
  Illinois Campaign, 1910-13
• Mary Burnette Talbert, 1866-1923 (U.S.A.: OH, AR, NY)
• Marie Lacoste Gerin-Lajoie, 1867-1945 (Canada)
• Emily Murphy, 1868-1933 (Canada)
  Emily Murphy : Rebel by Christine Mander
• Akiko Yosano, 1868-1942 (Japan)
  Tangled Hair : Love Poems of Yosano Akiko by Yosano Akiko
  River of Stars : Selected Poems of Yosano Akiko by Akiko Yosano et al.
• Emily Davison, 1872-1913 (Great Britain)
• Margaret Bondfield, 1873-1953 (Great Britain)
• Nellie L. McClung, 1873-1951 (Canada)
  Firing the Heather : The Life & Times of Nellie McClung by Hallet Davis
  In Times Like These by Nellie McClung, Veronica Strong-Boag
• Marion Sanger Frank, 1875-1960 (U.S.A.)
• Katherine Dexter McCormick, 1875-1967 (U.S.A.)
• Mary Ritter Beard, 1876-1958 (U.S.A.)
  Mary Ritter Beard; A Sourcebook by Ann J. Lane (Editor), Mary Ritter Beard (Editor)
  A Woman Making History : Mary Ritter Beard Through Her Letters by Mary Ritter Beard, Nancy F. Cott (Editor)
• Teresa Billington-Greig, 1877-1964 (Great Britain)
  Non-Violent Militant : Selected Writings of Teresa Billington-Greig by Carol McPhee, Ann Fitzgerald (Editor)
• Lucy Burns, 1879-1966 (U.S.A.)
• Margaret Sanger, 1879-1966 (U.S.A.)
  Margaret Sanger Clinic
  Breaking Barriers : The Feminist Revolution from Susan B. Anthony to Margaret Sanger to Betty Friedan by Jules Archer
• Huda Shaarawi, 1879-1947 (Egypt)
  Harem Years : The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist 1879-1924 by Huda Shaarawi, Margot Badran (Editor)
• Margery Corbett-Ashby, 1882-1981 (Great Britain)
• Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962 (U.S.A.)
  Another biography
  Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
  No Ordinary Time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : The Home Front in World War II by Doris Kearns Goodwin
  The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt
• Rose Schneiderman, 1884-1972 (Poland, U.S.A.)
  Solidarity Forever : Rose Schneiderman & the Women's Trade Union League by Gary E. Endelman
• Alice Paul, 1885-1977 (U.S.A.)
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  Story of Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party by Inez H. Irwin
• Raicho Hiratsuka, 1886-1971 (Japan)
• Ellen Wilkinson, 1891-1947 (Great Britain)

Born 20th Century:

• Anna Mae Aquash (Micmac, North American Indian)
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  Life and Death of Anna Mae Acquash by Johanna Brand
• Kritaya Archavanitkul (Thailand)
  "Conversations with History": Interview
• Aung San Suu Kyi (Burma, Myanmar)
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  The Lady : Aung San Suu Kyi Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner by Barbara Victor
  Freedom from Fear and Other Writings by Aung San Suu Kyi
• Ella Baker (U.S.A.: VA, NY, GA)
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  Ella Baker: Freedom Bound by Joanne Grant
• Daisy Gatson Bates (U.S.A.: AR)
  The Daisy Bates Papers
• Rosalynn Carter (U.S.A.)
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  Another profileFirst Lady from Plains by Rosalynn Carter
  Helping Yourself Help Others : A Book for Caregivers by Rosalynn Carter, Susan K. Golant (Contributor)
• Ruth First (South Africa)
  South West Africa by Ruth First
• Antoinette Fouque (France)
• Betty Friedan (U.S.A.)
  Betty Friedan : Her Life by Judith Adler Hennessee, Judith A. Hennesee
  The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
• Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer (U.S.A.: MS)
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  This Little Light of Mine : The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer by Kay Mills
  Fannie Lou Hamer and the Fight for the Vote by Penny Colman
• Coretta Scott King (U.S.A.: AL, GA)
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  Coretta Scott King by Lisa Renee Rhodes
  Coretta Scott King : Striving for Civil Rights by Anne Schraff
• Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (South Africa)
• Rigoberta Menchu (Guatemala)
  I, Rigoberta Menchu : An Indian Woman in Guatemala by Rigoberta Menchu et al.
  Journey for Peace : The Story of Rigoberta Menchu by Marlene Targ Brill, Ruben De Anda (Illustrator)
• Sadako Ogata (Japan)
  Another biography
  Normalization With China : A Comparative Study of U.S. and Japanese Processes by Sadako Ogata
• Rosa Louise Parks (U.S.A.: AL, MI)
  Another biography
  Rosa Parks by Rosa Parks, Jim Haskins (Contributor)
  Dear Mrs. Parks : A Dialogue With Today's Youth by Rosa Parks, Gregory J. Reed
• Elizabeth Peratrovich (U.S.A.: AK)
• Mary Robinson (Ireland)
  Another biography
  Mary Robinson : A Woman of Ireland and the World by John Horgan
  The Woman Who Took Power in the Park : Mary Robinson by Lorna Siggins
• Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt)
  Memoirs of a Woman Doctor by Nawal El Saadawi
  The Innocence of the Devil by Nawal El Saadawi
• Nafis Sadik (Pakistan)
• Ginetta Sagan
• Gillian Slovo (South Africa, Great Britain)
  Every Secret Thing : My Family, My Country by Gillian Slovo, Roger Donald (Editor)
  Catnap by Gillian Slovo
• Gloria Steinem (U.S.A.)
  The Education of a Woman : The Life of Gloria Steinem by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
  Revolution from Within : A Book of Self-Esteem by Gloria Steinem
• Efua Theodora Sutherland (Ghana)

Also check out:

• British History-- The Emancipation of Women 1750-1920
  
• Women's Rights by Loretta Cody