Cheney, Ednah Dow, 1824-1904

Variant names
Dates:
Birth 0824
Death 1904
Birth 1824-06-27
Death 1904-11-19
Gender:
Female
Britons, Americans,
English, English,

Biographical notes:

Ednah Dow Cheney was a Boston writer, reformer, and philanthropist. She established the Boston School of Design for women in 1851; was secretary of the New England Hospital for Women and Children, 1887-1902; worked for freedmen before and after the Civil War, and after the Civil War for women's rights. She was one of the founders and financial backers of the New England Women's Club. She married Seth Cheney in 1853; he died in 1856.

From the description of Papers, 1899. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007176

Boston author, abolitionist, and secretary of the New England Freedmen's Aid Society.

From the description of Letter to Mrs. Waters [manuscript], 1890 February 22. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647988448

American author and biographer.

From the description of Letter, 1895. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122638064

Mrs. Cheney lectured at the Concord School of Philosophy, which opened July 15, 1879, in Bronson Alcott's study, with Alcott as Dean and Sanborn as Secretary. Sanborn was Inspector of Public Charities for the State of Massachusetts.

From the description of Letter, 1879 Jun. 26, Jam[aica] Plain [Mass.] to Frank[lin B. Sanborn, Concord, Mass.] (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34369851

American abolitionist, woman suffragist and author. Wrote biographies of her husband Seth Wells Cheney and of Louisa May Alcott.

From the description of Letter : Jamaica Plain, to Mrs. Townsend, 1892 May 31. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 34657016

American author and reformer.

Annotated list available.

From the description of Papers of Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney [manuscript], 1894, n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647869845

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Subjects:

  • Suffrage
  • Authors, American
  • Women authors
  • Biographers
  • Composers
  • Women
  • Suffragists
  • Transcendentalism

Occupations:

  • Philanthropists
  • Reformers
  • Writer

Places:

  • Czechoslovakia (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts--Boston (as recorded)
  • New England (as recorded)
  • Massachusetts (as recorded)
  • Boston (Mass.) (as recorded)
  • MA, US
  • MA, US

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