Frances Dana Barker Gage (pen name, Aunt Fanny; October 12, 1808 – November 10, 1884) was a leading American reformer, feminist and abolitionist.

She worked closely with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, along with other leaders of the early women's rights movement in the United States.

Gage wrote that this was a turning point for her, the incident bringing up hatred to the limitations of sex and laying the foundation for her later activism.

Those at the convention fought to have race and gender removed from requirements for state citizenship and voting rights in the Ohio Constitution.

[4] When the American Civil War began she was employed by the Western Sanitary Commission; she traveled down the Mississippi River to help the injured in Vicksburg, Natchez and Memphis.

From 1863 to 1864 she was the superintendent, under General Rufus Saxton, in charge of Parris Island, South Carolina, a refuge for over 500 freed slaves.

[5] Her lecture circuit included Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

They will bow low, and actually respect the women to whom they now talk platitudes; and silly flatteries, sparkling eyes, rosy cheeks, pearly teeth, ruby lips, the soft and delicate hands of refinement and beauty, will not be the burden of their song; but the strength, the power, the energy, the force, the intellect and the nerve, which the womanhood of this country will bring to bear, and which will infuse itself through all the ranks of society, must make all its men and women wiser and better.Gage wrote children's books and poems, under the pen name of "Aunt Fanny."

Among the other publications to which she contributed were the Western Literary Magazine, New York's Independent, Missouri Democrat, Cincinnati's The Ladies' Repository, Field Notes, and The National Anti-Slavery Standard, as well as being an early contributor to the Saturday Review.

Gage published Poems (1867); Elsie Magoon, or the Old Still-House in the Hollow: A Tale of the Past (1872); Steps Upward (1873); and Gertie's Sacrifice, or Glimpses of Two Lives (1869).

Oppression and war will be heard of no more Nor the blood of a slave leave his print on our shore, Conventions will then be a useless expense, For we'll all go free suffrage, a hundred years hence.

There came a time when Universalists refused to go with me as an abolitionist, an advocate for the rights of women, for earnest temperance pleaders," she wrote late in life.