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Alphabetical list of authors & contributors

Bylines and pseudonyms are shown as printed in the original sources.
Alphabetical by first name.
Authors and contributors are women unless otherwise indicated.
♀ used only when required for clarity; ♂ = male.
† = gender not clearly identified in sources.

A (Would Be) Lady Tricyclist
A Careful Housewife
A Class Member
A Co-Ed
A Connecticut Woman
A Detroit Lady
A Fair-Minded But Anxious Mother
A Future Member ♀
A Lady
A Lady Cyclist
A Lady Dressmaker
A Lady Rider
A Massachusetts Wheelwoman
A Middletown (N. Y.) Scribe
A West End Lady
A Woman Cyclist
A. C. B.
A. E. Becker ♀
A. L. W. (Annie Laurie Woods)
A. N. Cheney ♂
A. P. B., No. 8,758 ♀
A. S. B. (Alice Stone Blackwell)
Abbie Crocker Percy
Ada Cotton
Ada Howard
Ada R. G.
Addie Swain
Adelaide A. Claffin
Adele Gardner
Adele M’Allister
Adelia Brainerd
Adeline E. Knapp
Agnes Fraser Sandham
Albert Mott ♂
Alethe Lowber Craig
Alexis J. Colman
Alice Brown
Alice Crossette Hall
Alice De Murest
Alice Demarest (misspelled)
Alice Lee Moqué
Alice M. Hayes
Alice M. Rouse
Alice M. Wood
Alice MacGowan
Alice R. Stockton
Alice Rix
Alice Stead Binney
Alice Stone Blackwell
Amy Hurlston
Anetta J. Halliday
Anita L. Corbert
Anna Ballard
Anna Jenness Miller
Anna March
Anna R. Taylor
Annetta Josefa Halliday
Annie Jenness Miller (Preferred form)
Annie Laurie
Annie Laurie Woods
Annie Payson Call
Annie R. Stevenson
Annie Thomas
Antonia
Arabella Kenealy, L. R. C. P.
Arlo Bates ♂
Arthur Penfield ♂
Aubrey “Lizzie” Le Blond (Mrs. Fred Burnaby)
Aunt Becky
B. ♀
B. B. Vallentine ♂
Bab
Band-Brake ♀
Bella
Belle Campbell
Belle Hunt
Belle Shane
Bergthara
Bertha Von Hillern
Beryl and Fée
Bessie Dow Bates
Bessie Murray
Blakeley Hall †
Blanche Evelyn Dorland
Boston Traveler ♂
Brockton ♂
Buffalo Ali Baba ♂
By a Woman
C. ♀
C. Anstruther Thomson
C. De Hurst
C. Everett Green ♀
C. F. D. Elma, Iowa ♀
C. F. Holcomb ♂
C. H. Ames ♂
C. R. Hutchings ♂
C. S. W.
Cally Ryland
Carlotta (Mary Breed Hawley Myers)
Carlotta Cole
Carol Crouse
Caroline Reed Harris
Carrie Cunningham
Carrie Foote Weeks
Carrie M. Ashton
Catharine E. Beecher
Caviler
Celia Logan
Celia Lovejoy
Charles Hallock ♂
Charlotte Perkins Stetson
Charlotte Reeve Conover
Charlotte Smith
Charmian Kittredge
Chester Ames ♂
Christine Handley, M. A.
Christine Terhune Herrick
Circle ♂
Clara
Clara Beckwith
Clara Belle
Clara Milliken
Connie
Constance Borland
Constance Hastings
Constant Reader
Copetka
Cornelia Crosby
Cornelia Dorothy Chandler
Correspondence Tricyclist
Correspondent ♂
Cyclometer
Cynthia
D. C. H. ♂
D. E. Heywood
Daisie
Daisy Bell
Daisy May
Daphne
Dare
Delia Lindsay
Delia M. Elliott
Della Fox
Diana (Mary J. Lagen)
Diana (not Mary J. Lagen)
Diana Crossways
Diane Chasseresse
Diane de Morey
Dixie
Dolly B.
Dora De Blaquiere
Dora Hope
Doris
Doris Blake
Dorothy Dare
Dorothy Dix
Dorothy Maddox
Dot
Dot Dimmick
Dr. Alice T. Hall
Dr. Carolyn C. Ladd
Dr. Clara Steinbrenner
Dr. Eliza K. Morgan
Dr. Elizabeth Dudley
Dr. Fanny J. Miller
Dr. Fanny Oakey
Dr. Helen Putnam
Dr. Mary Wood Allen (quoted)
Dr. May Safford Blake
Duchess of Newcastle
E.
E. B. Hutchinson
E. B. P.
E. H. Grant ♀
E. M. Robson ♀
E. Pauline Johnson
E. T. ♀
E. Vinton Blake
Eastern Massachusetts ♀
Edith Bigelow
Edith Lawrence
Edith S. Brownsill
Edith Sessions Tupper
Editor ♂
Editoress ♀
Edna Snell Poulson
Edna Wallace Hopper
Eleanor French
Eleanor Waddle
Elise Nelson
Eliza Archard Conner
Eliza P. Heaton
Eliza Putnam Heaton
Elizabeth A. Tompkins
Elizabeth B. Grannis
Elizabeth Blackwell, M. D.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth D. Kirby
Elizabeth Dustin
Elizabeth Fisher Read
Elizabeth Greenleaf
Elizabeth Griswold
Elizabeth Hooper
Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Walling
Ella Black
Ella Butler Evans
Ella Loraine Dorsey
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Ella Wing
Ellen Le Garde
Ellen M. Henrotin
Ellen Osborn
Ellye Howell Glover
Em’ly
Emily A. Thackvay
Emily H. Palmer
Emily Holt
Emily Pierce
Emily Smith
Emma A. Opper
Emma Bullet
Emma Jean Wilson
Emma Shaw Colceugh
Emma Townsend Wilkinson
Enjoying the Curse ♀
Esther Louise Smith
Ethel M. Clarke
Ethel M. Mackenzie
Eva A. Schubert
Eva Lovett
Evelyn
Evelyn Burnblum
F. C. G
F. J. E.
F. J. Erskine (Frances J. Erskine)
F. Johnson ♀
Fannie
Fannie B. Merrill
Fannie Edgar Thomas
Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
Fannie Pearson Hardy
Fannie Warner Bicknell
Fanny B. Workman
Fanny Bullock Workman
Fanny Darling
Fanton †
Fay Templeton
Flora Lincoln Comstock
Florence B. Hallowell
Florence E. Wilkes
Florence Guertin Tuttle
Florence Healy
Florence J. D
Florence Percy Matheson
Florine Thayer McCray
Florrie
Flossie
Fly Rod (Cornelia Crosby)
Frances Drake
Frances E. Fryatt
Frances E. Lanigan
Frances E. Smith
Frances E. Willard
Frances H. Flagler
Frances Kerby
Frances Namon Sorcho
Frances Tucker
Frances W. Oakey, M. D
Frances Willard
Frances Willard (quoted)
Francis Littleton Fuller
Frank Elton ♂
Frederica Plunket (Hon. Frederica Plunket)
G. F. P ♀
Genevieve
Genevra Magee
George H. Powers, M. D. ♂
Georgia Roberts
Georgina Weldon
Gertrude Boswell,
Grace Boylen
Grace Dodge
Grace E. Denison
Grace E. S
Grace Fern
Grace Greenwood (quoted)
Grace M
Grace Peckham Murray, M. D.
H. A. Ogden (illustrator) ♂
H. M. L ♀
H. M. Pillans ♀
H. S. Hewitt †
Harriet Hubbard Ayer
Harriette C. Keatinge, M. D.
Harrydele Hallmark
Hawkshaw ♂
Helen Bierer
Helen Campbell
Helen Church
Helen Dare
Helen Dauvray
Helen F. Huntington
Helen Follett
Helen Grey (Grey-Page)
Helen Pillans
Helen S. Clark
Helen Smith Robinson
Helen W. Foster
Helen Ward
Heloise
Hendrica C. Verplanck
Henrietta
Henriette Rousseau
Henry Chadwick ♂
Hermit ♂
Hilda K.
Hildreth Bergen
Hortense Foglesong
Howard ♂
Ida Lemon
Ida Reed Smith
Ida Trafford Bell
Ignorance ♀
Indianapolis ♀
Iris
Irish girl
Isabel A. Mallon
Isabel Mallon
Isabel Marks
Isabel Nelson
Isabel Somerset
Isabella Florence
Its Secretary ♀
J. B. ♀
J. B. McCormack ♂
J. F. Donnolly ♂
J. F. Sprague ♂
J. H. LaRoche ♂
J. H. McDonough ♂
J. H. Oswald Brown ♂ (illustrator)
J. Parke Street ♂
J. W. P †
James A. Black, M.D. ♂
Jane C. Yatman
Jane Marlin
Janet E. Adams
Janet Shepard
Jean Morris
Jean Pardee
Jean Pardee-Clark
Jeannette A. Grant
Jeannette A. Marks
Jeannette L. Gilder
Jenness Miller
Jennie Bigelow
Jennie Chandler
Jennie Taylor Wandle
Jenny June
Jessamy Harte
Jessie F. O’Donnell
Jessie H. Bancroft
Jessie M. M
Joan Porter Rudd
Joe Pritchard ♂
John Montgomery Ward
Joseph Pennell ♂
Josephine Dodge Daskam
Josephine Redding
Judic Chollet
Julia Elizabeth Fisher
Julia Thomas
Juliet Wilbor Tompkins
Juniata Salsbury
Karl Krohn ♂
Kate Bennett
Kate Condor
Kate Field
Kate Lee
Kate Masterson
Kate Swan
Kate Tannatt Woods
Kate Upson Clark
Katharine Farrand Reighard
Katherine Calligan
Katherine De Forest
Katherine Oliver
Katherine White
Kathleen
Kathleen and Norah
Kathryn Kidder
Katie Anderson
Kit-Maria
Kitty Klyde
L. A. W. 11,089 ♀
L. A. W. 11,100 ♀
L. A. W. 18256 ♂
L. A. W. 30,321 ♀
L. C. D.
L. Clare Davis
L. E. X.,
L. J. M ♀
L. M. Hutchings ♀
L. Ormiston Chant
L. Osbourne ♂
L. P. S
L. W. (Annie Laurie Woods)
L. Yale
L.A.W. 13,913 ♀
L.A.W. No. 10,172 ♀
L.A.W. No. 4,386 ♀
Lady Florence Dixie
Lady from Poughkeepsie
Lady Mildred Boynton
Lady Violet Greville
Laura M. Smith
Laverie Charmion
Lavinia Hart
Leila Adair
Lenore M. Lybrand
Leonora Beck
Lidia Fleming
Lidia Flemming ♀
Lillian Baynes Griffin
Lillian Ferguson
Lillian H. Shuey
Lillian Russell
Lillias Campbell Davidson
Lillias Campbell Davidson (preferred)
Lillie Hamilton French
Lillie Harris
Lizzie Ihling (Wise)
Llewella Pierce Churchill
Lois Louise Shardlow
London W. ♂
Lora S. La Mance
Lorgnette
Lottie D. Coleman
Lou ♀
Lou. Capsadell
Louis L. Waterbury ♂
Louise E. Hogan
Louise Mattox
Louisville girl
Lucy Hall-Brown, M. D
Lucy Hooper
Lucy J. Tomlin
Lulu N.G
M. (Marian Mason)
M. A. Fanton (Mary Annable Fanton)
M. A. P.
M. Alice Cory
M. B.
M. E. W. Sherwood ♀
M. F. C. ♀
M. Gertrude Cundill
M. H. Catherwood (Mary Hartwell Catherwood)
M. Herstein, M. D. ♂
M. J. Lagen (Diana)
M. Kirkwood
Mab
Mabel Boyd
Mabel C. Craft
Mabel Craft
Mabel Esmonde Cahill
Mabel Gifford
Macon ♂
Madame LeVanway
Madge
Madge Lessing
Madge Robertson
Mae Gates
Mae VanNorman Long
Maggie Kirkwood
Maggie Kirkwood (in body text only)
Mamie E. Hyland
Marcella
Margaret Allston
Margaret Andrews Allen
Margaret Bisland
Margaret Bottome
Margaret E. Sangster
Margaret Kirkwood (preferred)
Margaret Valentine Le Long
Margery Deane
Margherita Arlina Hamm
Marguerite
Marguerite Lindley
Marguerite Merington
Maria
Maria E. Ward
Maria Grundy
Marian C. Whipple
Marie Jonreau
Marie Kent’
Marie Kobbe
Marie Reimer ’
Marie Wells
Marion
Marion Howard
Marion Orpen
Marion Pryde Quay
Marion Steele
Marjorie Marsh
Martha
Martha McCulloch-Williams
Martha White
Mary A. Allen
Mary A. Barr
Mary A. C. Patterson
Mary A. Livermore
Mary Annable Fanton
Mary Blake
Mary Breed Hawley Myers
Mary C. McCleave
Mary Calkins Johnson
Mary Dean
Mary E. Land
Mary E. Land (editor)
Mary E. Shipman Andrews
Mary Gay Humphrey
Mary Gay Humphries
Mary Holmes (Mitie Holmes)
Mary L. Bisland
Mary L. Rame
Mary M. Malleson
Mary Matthews
Mary Melissie Shepard
Mary Orvis Marbury
Mary Sargent
Mary Sargent Hopkins
Mary T. Townsend
Mary Taylor Bissell, M. D
Mary Trowbridge Townsend
Mary Wager Fisher
Mary Wood Allen, M.D
Mate Leroy
Mater
Matilda Zita Dowd
Matterhorn
Maud
Maud S
Maude Haywood
Max ♂
Maxine Elliott
May Blossoms
May Irwin
May Manton
Medica ♀
Mell ♀
Member of the team
Merrie Wheeler (Mary Sargent Hopkins)
Merrie Wheelers
Middlesex ♂
Mildred B
Mildred Nevins
Minerva Crown
Minetta Eames
Minimum (Minna Caroline Smith)
Minna B. Hall
Minna Caroline Smith (“Minimum”)
Minna Irving
Minne Besser (interviewed)
Minnie
Minnie A. Underwood
Minnie E. Brown
Minnie W. Armstrong
Minnie Walden
Miriam Michelson
Miss Agnes Wood
Miss Amy Morris Homans
Miss Anna Crossman Fawcett
Miss Anna Haydn Webster
Miss Cynthia Bates
Miss Edythe A. Cheatham
Miss F. J. Erskine
Miss F. Wright
Miss Florence B. Patterson
Miss Grace H
Miss H. W. Weinrich
Miss Helen Potter (quoted)
Miss Helen W. Foster
Miss Hodsdon
Miss I. W. Weigh
Miss Ida Branth
Miss Isabel Stiles
Miss Josephine Barrett
Miss Krombach
Miss L. C. Davidson
Miss L. Hart
Miss Libbie Thomas Mentzel
Miss Lookabout
Miss Lucile Eaton Hill
Miss Lydia Newcomb (quoted)
Miss M. H. Hall
Miss Margaret Stiles
Miss Marian Mason
Miss Mary C.
Miss Mary Shaw
Miss Patridge
Miss Pike
Miss Rosamond Linnett
Miss Russell
Miss Ruth C. Tousley
Miss S., of Portland
Miss Simper
Miss Sybil Salaman
Miss Violet Augusta Cary
Mitie Holmes
Mlle. Charmion
Mme. Hygeia
Mme. Janauschek (quoted)
Mme. Romero (quoted)
Morrill ♀
Mr. Mason ♂
Mr. Tandemon ♂
Mrs. 2,794
Mrs. 4,386
Mrs. A. Gilfert
Mrs. A. Neely
Mrs. Adelaide Hastings
Mrs. Albert Mott
Mrs. Alice Lee Moqué (Preferred form)
Mrs. Almira H. L. Phelps
Mrs. Annie Jenness Miller
Mrs. B.
Mrs. Bens
Mrs. C
Mrs. C. Martelli
Mrs. C. T. Griggs
Mrs. Charles Terry Collins
Mrs. Chas. T. Stran
Mrs. Churchill
Mrs. Clarence H. Plumb
Mrs. Cornelia K. Hood (quoted)
Mrs. D
Mrs. Dr. Evans (quoted)
Mrs. Dr. Ferguson
Mrs. E. Kennedy
Mrs. E. P. Hayden
Mrs. E. Robins Pennell
Mrs. E. S. Merry
Mrs. Eck
Mrs. Edith Sessions Tupper
Mrs. Egbert A. Norton
Mrs. Elizabeth Karr
Mrs. F. Cauthorn
Mrs. F. Harcourt Williamson
Mrs. Frances Leiter (quoted)
Mrs. Francis Stuart Parker
Mrs. Frank McGlathery
Mrs. Frank Topham
Mrs. Fred Burnaby
Mrs. Fred McEwen
Mrs. Garrett Webster
Mrs. H
Mrs. H. L. W
Mrs. Hattie White
Mrs. Henry B. Jacobs
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher (quoted)
Mrs. Hopkins
Mrs. Humphry
Mrs. J. B. Wasson
Mrs. J. C. Croly (Jennie June)
Mrs. J. J. McKay
Mrs. J. R
Mrs. Jack Williams
Mrs. James Carroll
Mrs. James Scrimgeour (quoted)
Mrs. Jane Lindsay
Mrs. Jas. H. Lambert
Mrs. Jenkins
Mrs. John A. Logan
Mrs. John Baily
Mrs. John Sherwood
Mrs. Katherine Knowles
Mrs. King
Mrs. L. A. Sterling,
Mrs. L. E. Smith
Mrs. L. H. Johnson
Mrs. L. N. Pereault
Mrs. L. N. Pero
Mrs. Lina Chaworth Musters
Mrs. Livermore
Mrs. Lyman Abbott
Mrs. M. E. Banta
Mrs. M. Lemon
Mrs. Mallon
Mrs. Margaret Ingersoll
Mrs. Martha A. Kelsey
Mrs. Martha Frazer
Mrs. Mary A. Livermore
Mrs. N. E. Smith
Mrs. R. A. Cartwright
Mrs. Riedeselle
Mrs. Robert Fitzsimmons
Mrs. Rose Aldrich
Mrs. Russell Harrison (quoted)
Mrs. S. T. Clark
Mrs. Sarah Mitchell
Mrs. Tandemon ♀
Mrs. Van Knickerbocker
Mrs. Victor Emmerson
Mrs. Victoria Bicycle
Mrs. W. Belcher
Mrs. W. K. Townsend
Mrs. Wallace Arnold
Mrs. Walter Magee
Mrs. William Allum
Mrs. William L. Fish
Mrs. William R. Farrington
Muriel Baily
Myrtle Brown
Myrtle Reed
N. B
Nan Byxbee
Nancy
Nancy C. Thomas
Nanette Magruder
Nannie Lambert (Power) O’Donoghue
Naomi
Nap.
Nasus
Nellie Bly
Nellie D. S. Graham
Nellie E. Baker
Nellie Thurston
Nellie Verrill Michels Davis
Nettie
New Jersey ♀
Nina Fitch
Nina Goodwin
Ninetta Eames
No. 102,577 †
No. 104,922 †
No. 119,058 ♀
No. 121,241 ♀
No. 127,618 ♀
No. 127,818 ♀
No. 130,317 ♂
No. 130,667 †
No. 155,685 †
No. 24,300 †
No. 30,787 ♀
No. 42,898’s Sister
No. 6,647 †
No. 62,139 †
No. 64,073 ♂
No. 7061 ♀
No. 81,468 †
No. 91,960 †
No. 96,073 ♀
No. 98,607 †
No. 99,510 ♀
Noah Count ♂
Norah
O. P. Caylor ♂
Olive Harper
Olive Harper (quoted)
Olive Holbrook
Olivia Howard Dunbar
One of the Co-Eds
One Woman
Ornh Qba ♂
Patty M. F. Selmes (Preferred form)
Patty M. Selmes
Pauline Hall
Pauline Pry
Pearl Price
Pedals ♂
Peggy
Penelope Powelson
Philadelphia lady
Pioneer
Pioneer, 18,143
Podgers ♂
Polly
Polly Oliver
Pony
Portlander ♂
Pringle ♂
Psyche
R. T. S
R. W. Wright ♂
Ratchet †
Rebecca
Ren Mulford, Jr. ♂
Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford
Rheta Louise Childe
Rose Hortense
Rose Marshall
Rose Meadows
Rosie Anstruther Thomson
Rowena Reed
Ruth
Ruth Ashmore
Ruth G. D. Havens
Ruth Raymond
S. B. G. ♀
S. M. Johnson
Sadie Dwinell
Sallie
Sara E. Coates
Sara McBride
Sarah A. Rogers
Sarah Comstock
Sarah D. La Fetra
Sarah Florence
Sarah King
Shirley Dare
Singer ♀
Sophia Foster Richardson
Spinning Jenny’
Stella Hunt
Stella M’Cray
Sterling Elliott ♂
Sue Brown
Susan
Susan B. Anthony
Susan S. Fessenden
T. H. Murnane ♂
T. T. T. ♂
Telemachus ♂
Tessie Jamieson
The Basketball Girls
The Inventor †
The Kicker ♂
The Owl ♂
The Post Woman
The Referee †
The Scorcher ♂
Vere Carew
Vietta S. Hiler
Viola Fuller Miner
Violet Greville
Violet Lorne
Virginia Niles Leeds
Virginia Van de Water
Von. W. ♂
W. I. Harris ♂
Weldy W. Walker ♂
Wenona Gilman
Wild Wood Geranium ♀
Wildflower
Willa Cather
William D. Kempton ♂
William Hunter Workman
William Workman ♂
Winifred Johnes
Winifred June Morgan
Winifred Louisa Leale
Wm. J. Barr ♂
Woman on a Tricycle
Xtra Dry †
Young Lady
Yucca
Zena
Zeta

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