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Rev. Phebe A. Coffin Hanaford Author |
"Writing not for fame but to provide for my children " Phebe published 17 books and was editor of the Universalist paper, The Ladies Repository. 1865-1870, during her most prolific period, her Life of Abraham Lincoln was the first biography published after his assassination. Her best known book, Daughters of America, a biographical dictionary of 957 women, is the "record of many women of the first and second Centuries whose lives were full of usefulness, and therefore worthy of renown and imitation." She contributed to Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s controversial Woman’s Bible published in 1895.
Phebe Coffin began her writing career at age 13 with the publication of a poem "America", addressing the issue of slavery. In 1853 Lucretia, the Quakeress, an anti-slavery novel, was published strongly personifying a woman’s role as abolitionist and preacher.
Further Study: All of Hanaford’s books are currently out of print but may be found in University Libraries.
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