I know from reading the statistics for this site over the years that most of you will not be reading this next Thursday, which is Thanksgiving in the U.S. So I'm offering these Thanksgiving treats by famous women early so you have time to enjoy them and your holiday -- you can even show off that you know all the verses to the winter song, originally known as "A Boy's Thanksgiving," often now known as "Over the River and Through the Wood":

• Sarah Josepha Hale on Thanksgiving
• "An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving" by Louisa May Alcott
• Over the River and Through the Wood
• Over the River and Through the Wood - Long Version
• About "Over the River and Through the Woods"

I've compiled a list of books about Queen Victoria, plus some biographies of her famous children and grandchildren. Queen Victoria is one of the most-studied, most-written-about women of history -- for good reason. She was one of the most powerful women in history.

Courtesy Library of Congress - Farm Security Administration, Office of War Information Collection

More Wordless Wednesday:

• Wordless Wednesday - Women's History in Pictures
• Wordless Wednesday around About.com
• See more Wordless Wednesday images on the Net

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Usually included as one of the earliest feminists -- though the term wasn't yet in use -- Margaret Fuller was influenced by, and helped influence, the American Transcendentalist movement. She was editor of The Dial magazine, the chief publication of that movement, and developed her book and feminist classic, Woman of the Nineteenth Century, from essays she'd published there. Sadly, she died while still quite young, in a shipwreck on returning from Italy. About.com's 19th Century History Guide has a profile of Margaret Fuller:

• Margaret Fuller Biography

Related articles on this site:

• Margaret Fuller Quotes
• Picture of Margaret Fuller
• What is Transcendentalism?
• Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
• Lucy Stone - A Soul As Free As the Air
• Emily Dickinson - Continuing Enigma