Phebe Ann Hanaford (née Coffin; May 6, 1829 — June 2, 1921) was a Christian Universalist minister and biographer who was active in championing universal suffrage and women's rights.

She was an active suffragist as well, and became a member of the American Equal Rights Association, which advocated for both black and female suffrage.

She spoke at suffrage meetings at the state and national levels and served as vice president of the Association for the Advancement of Women in 1874.

In the same period, Hanaford joined the Universalist Church of America, which included many members who advocated equality for women.

With the encouragement of suffragist Olympia Brown, America's first ordained Universalist woman minister, she began studying for the ministry.

She remained there for three years, leaving ultimately due to controversies over her views on women's rights and her personal life.

[1] She formed a new congregation, the Second Universalist Church of Jersey City, and preached out of a public hall for several years.

[2] During the 1870s, Hanaford toured New England and some of the Mid-Atlantic and West, giving lectures and sermons on a range of reform issues, including temperance.

Hanaford, in turn, penned a biographical sketch of Quiner,[4] and composed two sonnets inspired by the sculptor and her work.