# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-oakes-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:56:27.183Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elizabeth-oakes-smith"
name: "Elizabeth Oakes Smith"
slug: "elizabeth-oakes-smith"
description: "Elizabeth Oakes Smith was an American poet, fiction writer, editor, lecturer, and women's rights activist whose career spanned six decades, from the 1830s to the 1880s. Most well-known at the start of her professional career for poems such as \"A Corpse Going to a Ball\", which appeared in The Neapolitan in 1841, and \"The Sinless Child\", which appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1842, her reputation today rests on her feminist writings, including Woman and Her Needs, a series of essays published in the New-York Tribune between 1850 and 1851 that argued for women's spiritual and intellectual capacities as well as women's equal rights to political and economic opportunities, including the franchise and higher education."
tagline: "American poet (1806-1893)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elizabeth_Oakes_Prince_Smith_G-05241-001.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1806-08-12"
deathDate: "1893-11-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           39.27
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.809972
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AB_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3_%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AB"
    title: "إليزابيث أوكس سميث"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Oakes_Smith"
    title: "Elizabeth Oakes Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Oakes_Smith"
    title: "Elizabeth Oakes Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Oakes_Smith"
    title: "Elizabeth Oakes Smith"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Oakes_Smith"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5363282"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump