Washington Irving (1783-1859)

James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851)

The Cherokee Memorials

Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867)

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)

William Apess (1798-1839)

Caroline Stansbury Kirkland (1801-1864)

Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)

Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton) (1811-1872)

Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813-1897)

T. B. Thorpe (1815-1878)

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Louisa Amelia Smith Clappe (1819-1906) and Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910)

Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)

Harriet Prescott Spofford (1835-1921)

Emma Lazarus (1849-1887)