Angela Fiducia Heywood (1840–1935) was an American radical writer and activist, known as a free love advocate, suffragist, socialist, spiritualist, labor reformer, and abolitionist.

They were married in Old South Church in Boston on June 5, 1865, and moved to the town of Princeton, Massachusetts, where they bought a large house from which to run their publishing business.

The Word catered to many different movements, including free love, women's suffrage, socialism, and labor reform.

Ezra Heywood also wrote and distributed a series of pamphlets entitled Cupid's Yokes, which condemned the institution of marriage as akin to slavery for women.

[4] Heywood herself was a frequent writer for The Word, and considered herself to be a "word-painter,"[5] referring to her own beliefs as a kind of "ethics" or "religion" to be followed.

Her husband's view that the church played too large a role in marriage may have influenced Heywood's change of heart in this matter.

needs money to liberate herself from too much housework, so she can give more time to writing…Will not financially able men and sympathetic women help her 'articulate' by pouring in cash?

Over the years, Angela wrote prolifically for The Word, and was often angry at Ezra for editing her essays and cutting out what she felt were important parts (though he never censored her strong language).

Despite Angela's massive contributions to The Word, however, only Ezra was ever credited as editor, except for six months in 1878 when he was in jail and Benjamin Tucker took over as his substitute.

The very mention of abortion through the mail was at this time prohibited by the Comstock Law and the procedure itself was also illegal, making Heywood stand out as radical even among her fellow reformers.

Heywood spoke at the New England Free Love League Convention in Boston in November 1877 and was criticized by Anthony Comstock for her "obscenity.

[17] The Word stopped being published after Ezra's death in May 1893, and little is known about the rest of Angela's life, though a neighbor recalled that she was "doing day work in office buildings.