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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 6 0 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 13: concerning clubs 1867-1871; aet. 48-52 (search)
gan to receive invitations to read and speak in public. Mr. Emerson wrote to her concerning her philosophical readings: The scheme is excellent — to read thus — so new and rare, yet so grateful to all parties. It costs genius to invent our simplest pleasures. The winter of 1867-68 saw the birth of another institution which was to be of lifelong interest to her: the New England Woman's Club. This, one of the earliest of women's clubs, was organized on February 16, 1868, with Mrs. Caroline M. Severance, in whose mind the idea had first taken shape, as president. Its constitution announces the objects of the association as primarily, to furnish a quiet, central restingplace, and place of meeting in Boston, for the comfort and convenience of its members: and ultimately to become an organized social centre for united thought and action. How far the second clause has outdone and outshone the first, is known to all who know anything of the history of women's clubs. From the New E
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)
parture, and her personal friends almost with one accord held up hands of horror or deprecation. These things were inexpressibly painful to her; she loved approbation; the society and sympathy of kent folk, whose traditions corresponded with her own; but her hand was on the plough; there was no turning back. Suffrage worked her hard. The following year the New England Woman Suffrage Association issued a call for the formation of a national body; the names signed were Lucy Stone, Caroline M. Severance, Julia Ward Howe, T. W. Higginson, and G. H. Vibbert. Representatives from twenty-one States assembled in Cleveland, November 24, 1869, and formed the American Woman Suffrage Association. There was already a National Woman Suffrage Association, formed a few months earlier; the new organization differed from the other in some points of policy, notably in the fact that men as well as women were recognized among the leaders. Colonel Higginson was its president at one time, Henry Ward
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)
Schlesinger, Mrs., Barthold, II, 277. Schlesinger, Sebastian, II, 171. Schliemann, Heinrich, II, 5, 43. Schliemann, Mrs., II, 5, 7, 44. Schubert, Franz, II, 20, 71, 157. Schurz, Miss, II, 65. Schwalbach, II, 172, 173. Scotland, I, 88, 91, 92; II, 71, 166. Scott, Virginia, II, 249. Scott, Walter, I, 13, 91. Scott, Winfield, II, 249. Sears, Mrs. M., II, 210. Seattle, II, 133. Seeley, J. R., I, 313, 314; II, 6. Sembrich, Marcella, II, 269. Severance, Caroline M., I, 291; II, 9. Seward, W. H., I, 192, 246. Sforza Cesarini, Duchess, II, 175, 176. Shakespeare, William, II, 262, 330. Sharp, William, II, 169. Shedlock, Miss, II, 289. Shelby, I, 377. Shelley, P. B., I, 68; II, 237. Shenandoah, I, 274. Shenstone, William, I, 13. Sherborn Prison, II, 159. Sheridan, Philip, I, 274. Sherman, John, I, 239. Sherman, W. T., I, 274; II, 380. Sherwood, Mrs., John, II, 73. Siberia, II, 187. Sicily, II, 408.