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Matilda Joslyn Gage

1826–1898

1 standalone book

Matilda Joslyn Gage was an American writer and activist who contributed to women's suffrage in the United States. She also campaigned for Native American rights, abolitionism, and freethought. She is the eponym for the Matilda effect, which describes the tendency to deny women credit for scientific invention. She influenced her son-in-law L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Born
1826

Books by Matilda Joslyn Gage

  1. Cover of Woman, church and state

    Woman, church and state

    1893

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