Women Activists Educational Posters, “G...-”
for the social studies classroom, home schoolers and theme decor.

Matilda Joslyn Gage
Zona Gale
Garrett Sisters
(Elizabeth and Millicent)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Nikki Giovanni
Emma Goldman
Maude Gonne

Matilda Joslyn Gage
b. 3-24-1826; Cicero, New York
d. 3-18-1898; Chicago, IL (in the home of her daughter and son-in-law, L. Frank Baum)

Matilda Joslyn Gage, a key figure in the 19th century as a radical freethinker, suffragist, abolitionist and Native American activist, spent her childhood in a house that was a station of the Underground Railroad.

At different times in her life she faced arrest and prison - under the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 which criminalized assistance to escaped slaves and once successfully argued down a group of policemen who were charging illegal assembly against the National Woman Suffage Association convention in 1876.

The advanced thought of Gage caused her to be shunned by other leaders in the suffrage movement and resulted in her not being as well known today.

• Woman, Church and State by Matilda Joslyn Gage
• Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influences on Early American Feminists

Zona Gale
b. 8-26-1874; Portage, Wisconsin
d. 12-27-1938

Zona Gale was active in creating the Wisconsin Equal Rights Law, which prohibits discrimination against women.

Best remembered as an author her most popular novel, Miss Lulu Bett, into a Pulitzer Drama prize winner (1921).

Zona Gale quotes ~
• “I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.”
• “Loving, like prayer, is a power as well as a process. It's curative. It is creative.”
• “The world consists almost exclusively of people who are one sort and who behave like another sort.”

The Garrett Sisters (aunts to Philippa Fawcett)

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
b. 6-9-1836; Whitechapel, London, England
d. 12-17-1917

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first woman qualify in Britain as a doctor, was also the first woman mayor in England.

• Elizabeth Garrett Anderson - The "Women of Renown" Series

Millicent Garrett Fawcett
b. 6-11-1847; Aldeburgh, England
d. 8-5-1929

Millicent Garrett Fawcett was instrumental in gaining the vote for British women and increasing opportunities for higher education.

• Essays and Lectures on Social and Political Subjects

Charlotte Perkins Gilman photo

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
b. 7-3-1860; Hartford, CT
d. 8-17-1935

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was active in organizing social reform movements as a lecturer and author. Her best known work is the short story The Yellow Wallpaper about a woman who suffers from mental illness after three months of being trapped within her home staring at the same yellow wall paper.

Charlotte was niece of Catharine Esther Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (no commerically avaiable poster)

“Nikki” Giovanni
née Yolande Cornelia
b. 6-7-1943; Knoxville, TN

Poet and activist Nikki Giovanni has taught English at Virginia Tech since 1987. In 2004 Giovanni was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.

Nikki Giovanni quote ~
• “...if it takes a near-death experience for you to appreciate your life, you're wasting somebody's time.”

Emma Goldman
b. 6-27-1869; Lithuania
d. 5-19-1940; Canada

“The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.”

Emma Goldman was a prolific writer and speaker, constantly drawing attention to her ideas for women’s equality with sexual freedom and birth control, freedom of thought and expression, and worker’s rights for an eight hour day, and union organizing.

• more Emma Goldman posters

Maud Gonne
b. 12-21-1866; England
d. 4-27-1953

Maude Gonne was an Irish actress, feminist, and patriot. Poet William Butler Yeats was infatuated with her, she was also the mother of Sean MacBride, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974.

• Maude Gonne: Ireland's Joan of Arc

Marie-Olympe de Gouges
b. 12-31-1748; France
d. 11-3-1793

Marie-Olympe de Gouges was a writer, feminist, & revolutionary who was guillotined during the French Reign of Terror.

Germaine Greer
b. 1-29-1939; Melbourne, Australia

Writer, academic, journalist and scholar Germaine Greer is widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of the later 20th century with the publication of her controversial book, The Female Eunuch. She regards her goal as ‘women's liberation’ as distinct from ‘equality with men’.

Sarah Moore Grimke, with Autograph, Giclee Print

The Grimké Sisters

Sarah Moore Grimké
b. 11-26-1792; South Carolina
d. 12-23-1873

Angelina Grimké Weld
b. 2-20-1805; South Carolina
d. 10-26-1879

The Grimké sisters are remembered for their strong educational, abolitionist, religious activism. They were the daughters of a distinguished member of Charleston society who as a judge, planter, lawyer, politician, slaveholder, and Revolutionary War veteran forbid his daughters any activities outside of the prescribed elite social mores.