Victoria Woodhull-Martin papers, 1870-1962 (bulk 1870-1900).

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Victoria Woodhull-Martin papers, 1870-1962 (bulk 1870-1900).

This collection consists of general correspondence from 1870 to 1929 including letters from Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Paulina Wright Davis, Jerome K. Jerome, and Charles Mackay. Also included is family correspondence and estate correspondence through 1962. In addtion the collection consists of autobiographical notes, speeches and pamphlets, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Subjects covered in the material include astrology, the occult, and Greek mythology.

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Anthony, Susan B. (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906

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Susan B. Anthony (born Susan Anthony; February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery petitions at the age of 17. In 1856, she became the New York state agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society. In 1851, she met Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who became her lifelong friend and co-worker in social reform activ...

Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927

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Victoria C. Woodhull was a woman's rights pioneer who achieved notoriety on many fronts in Gilded Age America. She founded (with her sister Tennessee Claflin) a Wall Street brokerage, with the support and advice of Cornelius Vanderbilt. Woodhull used profits to publish Woodhull & Claflin Weekly, advocating female suffrage, free love, and other progressive causes. Later she addressed House committee on suffrage, and exposed the Beecher-Tilton scandal, implicating celebrated minister Henry War...

Davis, Paulina W. (Paulina Wright), 1813-1876

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Feminist, reformer, and suffragist, Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis was born in Bloomfield, N.Y. Her second marriage, in 1849, was to Thomas Davis, manufacturer and state representative; they adopted two daughters. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letter, 1873. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007096 Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis was a reformer interested in abolition, temperance, women's rights, and ...

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815-1902

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York in 1815. She organized the first Women's Rights Convention at Senecca Falls, New York, in 1848 and for more than fifty years thereafter was a crusader for women's rights, especially women's suffrage. She died in New York City in 1902....

Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka), 1859-1927

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Jerome K. Jerome was an English novelist, biographer, playwright, essayist, and short-story writer. From the description of Jerome Klapka Jerome collection of papers,f1892-1926. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122579856 From the guide to the Jerome Klapka Jerome collection of papers, 1892-1926, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) Jerome K. Jerome was a popular English humorist. Born...

Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889

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Charles Mackay, Scots-born poet and writer. From the description of Charles Mackay manuscript material : 1 item, [ca. 1850's?] (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 726872907 Scottish poet. From the description of The primrose : autograph manuscript copy of the poem signed : Boston, 1858 May 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270609514 British journalist and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Richard B...