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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) were prominent vegetarians who reflected the Romantic Age ideals of a deep appreciation for nature and the corresponding view that consuming meat was unnatural and unhealthy…

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Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott grew up in an unusual family, one that didn’t exactly fit with the general mid-19th century profile—a family that valued and encouraged girls’ creativity, emphasized progressive education, and was involved in all the major social causes of the day, including abolition, women’s rights, and vegetarianism…

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