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James Parton, Horace Greeley, T. W. Higginson, J. S. C. Abbott, E. M. Hoppin, William Winter, Theodore Tilton, Fanny Fern, Grace Greenwood, Mrs. E. C. Stanton, Women of the age; being natives of the lives and deeds of the most prominent women of the present gentlemen 9 1 Browse Search
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Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Chapter 17: the woman's cause 1868-1910 (search)
ad a very good attendance. Was forced to play the hymn tunes myself. Am thankful that the occasion seemed to meet with acceptance. In 1873, a number of women ministers having come to Boston to attend the May Anniversaries, she conceived the idea of bringing them together in a meeting all their own. She issued a call for a Woman Preachers' Convention, and this convention, the first held in any country, met on May 29, 1873. She was elected president, the Reverends Mary H. Graves and Olympia Brown vice-presidents, Mrs. Bruce secretary. The Journal describes this meeting as most harmonious and happy. In 1893, speaking of this time, she said:-- I find that it is just twenty years, last spring, since I made the first effort to gather in one body the women who intended to devote themselves to the ministry. The new liberties of utterance which the discussion of woman suffrage had brought us seemed at this time not only to invite, but to urge upon us a participation in the a
Laura E. Richards, Maud Howe, Florence Howe Hall, Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910, in two volumes, with portraits and other illustrations: volume 1, Index (search)
6. Brooks, Phillips, II, 75, 126, 127, 141, 162, 171, 172, 179. Brooks, Preston, I, 168. Brown, Anna, II, 57. Brown, Charlotte Emerson, II, 182. Brown, John, I, 151, 177, 179, 187, 381; II, 234. Brown, Mrs., John, I, 177. Brown, Olympia, I, 389. Brown University, I, 72, 297; II, 392. Browning, E. B., I, 201, 266; II, 167. Browning, Robert, I, 266; II, 5, 84, 171, 227, 306, 367. Bruce, Mr., II, 167. Bruce, Mrs. E. M., I, 389, 391. Bruges, I, 280. Brummel,ublication of From Sunset Ridge, 258, and of Reminiscences, 258, 259; work for prevention of lynching, 265, 266; receives degree from Tufts, 324; death of Michael Anagnos, 347, of D. P. Hall, 362, and of Marion Crawford, 389; receives degree from Brown, 392; decline of health, 407-10; receives degree from Smith, 411, 412; illness and death, 413, 414. Lectures and readings, I, 198-200, 209, 218, 228, 230, 239, 240, 251, 256, 264, 284, 290, 291, 342, 344, 350, 379, 385; II, 55-57, 61, 62, 66, 82,