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*[[Susan B. Anthony]], leading pro-life feminist and advocate of women's suffrage.  Her father homeschooled her.<ref>http://www.homeschoolutah.org/pages/pastandpresent.htm</ref>
 
*[[Susan B. Anthony]], leading pro-life feminist and advocate of women's suffrage.  Her father homeschooled her.<ref>http://www.homeschoolutah.org/pages/pastandpresent.htm</ref>
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*[[Jane Austen] (1775-1817), one of the most popular novelists of the early 19th century, was school-educated for only a year, after which she was taught at home by her father, her brothers, and herself, using their large family library.
    
* [[Benjamin Banneker]] (1731-1806)) wrote the first almanac by a black man and helped survey [[Washington, D.C.]].  Banneker was taught to read and write by his grandmother in rural [[Maryland]]."<ref>http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Banneker.html</ref>
 
* [[Benjamin Banneker]] (1731-1806)) wrote the first almanac by a black man and helped survey [[Washington, D.C.]].  Banneker was taught to read and write by his grandmother in rural [[Maryland]]."<ref>http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Banneker.html</ref>
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