Matilda Joslyn Gage, American author and activist (born 1826)

Matilda Joslyn Gage

American abolitionist, author (1826–1898)

Matilda Joslyn Gage was an American writer and activist. She is mainly known for her contributions to women's suffrage in the United States, but also campaigned for Native American rights, abolitionism, and freethought. She is the eponym for the Matilda effect, which describes…