ABSTRACT
Joan of Arc for the French And Ida B. Wells for the Negro … Go on, though brave woman leader, Spread our wrongs from shore to shore; Until clothed with his rights is the Negro, And lynchings are no more … And the wise Afro-American mother, Who her children of heroines tells, Shall speak in tones of gratitude, The Name of Ida B. Wells! Katherine Davis Tillman (“Lines to Ida B. Wells,” Christian Recorder , 1894: 1)
Miss Maude Gonne, the young woman who has devoted her fortune and talents to the cause of Ireland, arrived yesterday from Liverpool on the Cunard line Lucania. She is the proprietress and editor of L’Irelande Libre, an Irish patriotic publication in Paris, and she has already done so much in the interests of her native land that she is referred to by her sympathizers as “The Irish Joan of Arc.”
New York Times (24 October 1897)