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Caroline Healey Dall

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Portrait of Caroline Wells Healey Dall, ca.1872

Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1822–1912) was an American feminist writer, transcendentalist and reformer. She was affiliated with the National Women's Rights Convention, the New England Women's Club, and the American Social Science Association. Her associates included Elizabeth Peabody and Margaret Fuller.[1][2]

Dall was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and lived there off and on during her life.[3] She married Charles Dall; children included William Healey Dall.

Works

Portrait of Caroline Wells Healey Dall, by Alvan Clark, ca.1836
  • Essays and sketches. Boston: S. G. Simpkins, 1849. Google books.
  • "Woman's right to labor," or, Low wages and hard work: in three lectures, delivered in Boston, November, 1859. Boston: Walker, Wise, and Co., 1860. Google books
  • Woman's rights under the law: in three lectures, delivered in Boston, January, 1861. Boston: Walker, Wise and company, 1861. Google books
  • The college, the market, and the court: or, Woman's relation to education, labor, and law. 1867. Memorial edition (Boston: Rumford press, 1914) from Google books
  • The Life of Dr. Anandabai Joshee: A Kinswoman of the Pundita Ramabai. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1888.
  • Transcendentalism in New England. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1897. Google books
  • Selected Journals of Caroline Healey Dall, 1838-1855. Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 2006. Edited by Helen R. Deese.

References

  1. ^ Caroline Wells Healey Dall, Helen R. Deese. Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-century Woman, Caroline Healey Dall. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006
  2. ^ http://www.masshist.org/findingaids/doc.cfm?fa=fa0270 Retrieved 2010-06-15
  3. ^ Boston Directory. 1873

Further reading

  • Helen R. Deese. Alcott's Conversations on the Transcendentalists: The Record of Caroline Dall. American Literature, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Mar., 1988), pp. 17-25.
  • Myerson, Joel, ed. (1978), The American Renaissance in New England, Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 1, Detroit: Gale Research Co.

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