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Women in RI history -Making a Difference Index
  
aking a Difference
     Women have always made outstanding contributions to Rhode Island's history. Among their achievements are a hospital, institutions of higher learning, social reform and an intangible legacy of commitment and inspiration. To learn more about these women, we invite you to read the following profiles, first published in a 1994 series in the Providence Journal-Bulletin.

Christiana Carteux Bannister


Elizabeth Buffum Chace

Prudence Crandall &
Sarah Harris Fayerweather


Sarah Doyle

Mary Dyer
Elleanor Eldridge

Maud Howe Elliott

Ann Franklin

Katharine Ryan Gibbs

Lillian Moller Gilbreth

Mary D. Grant
Alice Winsor
Hunt

Anne Hutchinson

Gertrude L. Johnson &
Mary T. Wales


Sissieretta Jones

Ida Lewis

Helen A. R. Metcalf
Lizzie Murphy

Elizabeth Nord

Isabelle Ahearn O'Neill

Nancy Elizabeth Prophet

Glenna Collett Vare

Jemima Wilkerson

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