The New International Encyclopædia/Dall, Caroline Healy

DALL, Caroline Healy (1822—). An American author and philanthropist, born in Boston. She lectured frequently on theological subjects, and on questions associated with the amelioration of conditions affecting woman, and was a founder of the Social Science Association, the constitution of which she framed. For many years she conducted a class in literature and morals at her home in Washington. With Mrs. Pauline Wright Davis she founded Una, a journal devoted to woman's rights, and the pioneer publication of its kind in Boston. The writings of Mrs. Dall are devoted chiefly to a discussion of the rights of woman, and her work entitled The College, the Market, and the Court, or Woman's Relation to Education, Employment, and Citizenship (1867), is a widely known contribution to that subject. Another popular work from her pen is entitled, What We Really Know About Shakespeare (1885; 2d ed. 1886).