Letter from Adelaide Avery Claflin in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1891

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Letter from Adelaide Avery Claflin in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1891

1891

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Letter to Lucy Stone by Adelaide Avery Claflin, Unitarian minister, suffragist, lecturer, and writer.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Stone, Lucy, 1818-1893

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Lucy Stone (b. Aug. 13, 1818, West Brookfield, MA–d. Oct. 18, 1893, Boston, MA) was born to parents Hannah Matthews and Francis Stone. At age 16, Stone began teaching in district schools always earning far less money than men. In 1847, she became the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree from Oberlin College. After college, Stone began her career with the Garrisonian Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society and began giving public speeches on women's rights. In the fall of 1847, with...

Narcissa Adelaide (Avery) Claflin, 1846-1931

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Adelaide Avery Claflin was born Narcissa Adelaide Avery in Boston, Mass. She married Frederic A. Claflin in 1870; they had a son and three daughters. AAC began lecturing on woman suffrage in 1883 and appeared with Lucy Stone, Mary Livermore, and Julia Ward Howe. A Unitarian minister ordained at Meadville, Pa., in 1897, she was on the executive board of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association and a member of the Boston Equal Suffrage League. AAC published articles an...