Caroline Wells (Healey) Dall (22 June 1822-17 December 1912), woman's rights advocate, was born in Boston and received a fine education from her wealthy father, who wanted her trained to be the intellectual equal of the men around her. In 1841 she...

Caroline Healey Dall, known as the most able writer in the women's movement in the 1850s and 1860s, was a second-generation Transcendentalist and a memorialist of the Transcendentalist movement and its major figures. Reformer, lecturer, and...

Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-Century Woman, Caroline Healey Dall. Edited by Helen R. Deese. Boston: Beacon, 2005. 488 pp. $29.95/$20.00 paper. "This Journal is my safety valve," seventeen-year-old Caroline Healey Dall wrote on November 12,1839 (12). For decades...

Daughter of Boston: The Extraordinary Diary of a Nineteenth-Century Woman, Caroline Healey Dall. Edited by Helen R. Deese. Boston: Beacon, 2005.488 pp. $29.95/$20.00 paper. Reviewed by Sharon M. Harris, University of Connecticut, Storrs "This Journal is my safety valve," seventeen-year-old Caroline Healey...