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E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet
1818–1877
An early American writer who helped bring women’s stories into the historical record, she is best remembered for chronicling the lives of women of the Revolutionary era. Her work blended poetry, biography, and history at a time when women’s contributions were often overlooked.
6 Audiobooks
The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 2
by E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet
The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 1
by E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet
Women artists in all ages and countries
by E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet
Poems, translated and original
by E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet
Nouvellettes of the musicians
by E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet
The pioneer women of the West
by E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet
About the author
Elizabeth Fries Ellet was an American writer, historian, and poet born in 1818 in Sodus Point, New York. She published from a young age and went on to build a varied literary career, writing poetry, sketches, domestic works, and historical studies.
She is most often remembered for The Women of the American Revolution, a landmark work that gathered accounts of women who took part in the struggle for American independence. That project helped establish her as an important early recorder of women’s history in the United States.
Ellet died in New York City in 1877. Although she was a visible literary figure in her own lifetime, her reputation now rests mainly on the way she preserved stories that many historians of her era had left aside.