Hunkins-Hallinan, Hazel

Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan, daughter of Anna Isabel (Whittingham) and Ensign Lewis Hunkins, was born on June 6, 1890, in Aspen, Colorado. She received her A.B. from Vassar College in 1913 and worked towards her master's degree in chemistry at the University of Missouri. Denied the opportunity to teach chemistry and physics because she was a woman, she was inspired to join the National Woman's Party. She became a prominent figure in the picket lines in front of the White House, which lead to her arrest and imprisonment in the Occoquan Workhouse, where she and other suffragists participated in a hunger strike. In 1920, she moved to London, England, where she worked as a freelance journalist, notably writing a column under the pseudonym Ann Whittingham for the Chicago Tribune about English society with a focus on Americans in England. She was also the author of a children's book, The Story of America (1942), and the editor of In Her Own Right (1968), a collection of feminist essays. She married Charles Hallinan on January 20, 1930; they had four children. Charles Hallinan died on December 2, 1971. Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan died in London on May 17, 1982, of respiratory failure.

From the description of Papers, 1864-1984 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122407899

Hazel Hunkins Hallinan (1890-1971) was an American journalist and activist for women's suffrage and women's rights in both the United States and England. She was a member of the group that chained themselves to the White House gates in 1916.

From the guide to the Hazel Hunkins Hallinan Address, 1977, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)