Poet, Novelist, Feminist Lecturer, Essayist,
Playwright, and Mother.
Copy of tintype given to the webmaster by Nona Lockhart, whose family purchased Oakes Smith’s son Appleton’s property in Beaufort NC in the late 19th century. This is the earliest known photographic image of Oakes Smith, likely from the late 1840s or early 50s.
This site is dedicated to the recovery of the life and work of Elizabeth Oakes Smith.
Most of all, this site serves as a re-introduction, for twenty-first century readers, to a woman known for several decades of the nineteenth century as one of the most well-recognized literary figures, and later one of the most well-known voices in the debate over the rights and needs of women in the United States.
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