Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1822–1912) was an American feminist writer, transcendentalist and reformer. She was affiliated with the National Women's Rights Convention

National Women's Rights Convention

The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States. First held in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts, the National Women's Rights Convention combined both male and female leadership, and...

, the New England Women's Club

New England Women's Club

The New England Women's Club of Boston, Massachusetts, was the "first woman's club" in the United States. Members of the club in its early years included Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney, Julia Ward Howe, Mary Livermore, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Peabody, Lucretia Peabody, Caroline M. Severance, and...

, and the American Social Science Association

American Social Science Association

In 1865, at Boston, Massachusetts, a society for the study of social questions was organized and given the name American Social Science Association. The group grew to where its membership totaled about 1,000 persons. About 30 corresponding members were located in Europe...

. Her associates included Elizabeth Peabody

Elizabeth Peabody

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody was an American educator who opened the first English-language kindergarten in the United States. Long before most educators, Peabody embraced the premise that children's play has intrinsic developmental and educational value.-Biography:Peabody was born in Billerica,...

 and Margaret Fuller

Margaret Fuller

Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli, commonly known as Margaret Fuller, was an American journalist, critic, and women's rights advocate associated with the American transcendentalism movement. She was the first full-time American female book reviewer in journalism...

.

Dall was born in Boston

Boston

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, Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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, and lived there off and on during her life. She married Charles Dall; children included William Healey Dall.

Works

• 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
  Anandi Gopal Joshi
  Anandi Gopal Joshi A was one of the two first Indian women to obtain a medical degree through training in Western medicine...
  
  : A Kinswoman of the Pundita Ramabai. Boston: Roberts Brothers
  Roberts Brothers (publishers)
  Messrs. Roberts Brothers were bookbinders and publishers in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1857 by Austin J. Roberts, John F. Roberts, and Lewis A. Roberts, the firm began publishing around the early 1860s...
  
  , 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.

Further reading

• Helen R. Deese. Alcott
  Amos Bronson Alcott
  Amos Bronson Alcott was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment. He hoped to perfect the human spirit and, to that end, advocated a...
  
  's Conversations on the Transcendentalists: The Record of Caroline Dall. American Literature, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Mar., 1988), pp. 17-25.

External links

• http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2005683955
• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/dall.shtml