Antoinette Brown Blackwell

ABB is remembered as the first woman to be ordained in the United States. Though she published only ten works, she wrote extensively throughout her life and produced numerous speeches and essays. She took a keen interest in science and metaphysics, and her writing aims to secure a place for faith within emerging evolutionary and physics theories. The majority of her published works were written in response to the male thinkers of her time. Throughout her life ABB held significant roles within the suffrage community and devoted much of her literary career to woman's rights. She was a firm believer that equal opportunity, especially in education, would allow women to flourish in society.