Papers, 1861-1920.

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Papers, 1861-1920.

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Papers include a very small amount of biographical material about Caroline Seymour Severance; some correspondence; two photographs of Jesse Benton Fremont; Caroline Severance's guest book; Julia Severance's scrapbook; and a copy of The mother of clubs: Caroline M. Seymour Severance (ed. Ella Giles Ruddy). The collection is small, and comes primarily from the years the family spent in Los Angeles, but the guest book and scrapbook in particular shed some light on the women's club movement, the abolitionist movement and networks within it, and the woman's rights movement. Included in the guest book and scrapbook are autographs, messages, drawings, photographs, memorabilia, and small amounts of correspondence from significant individuals such as Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, Bronson Alcott, Catharine Beecher, U.S. Grant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, Lydia Maria Child, Lucy Stone, Alice Stone Blackwell, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sarah Grimke, May Alcott, and many others.

.5 linear ft. (1 box)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914

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Caroline Maria Seymour Severance, suffragist, reformer, and social activist, was born in Canadaigua, New York, in January 1820. In 1840 she married Theodoric Severance. The Severances first lived in Cleveland, Ohio, but moved to Boston in 1855. In 1868, Caroline Severance founded the New England Women's Club, the first women's club in the United States earning her the name "Mother of Clubs." The Severances moved to Los Angeles in 1875 where she continued her various reform work including Unitari...

Severance, Julia.

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New England Women's Club

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One of the oldest women's clubs in the U.S., the New England Women's Club was founded in 1868 to provide a meeting place for women outside their homes where they could obtain knowledge and inspiration for work inside and outside the home and for uniting their efforts in various social causes. The club held weekly meetings from November to May with speakers on subjects in literature, history, music, art, or on topics of current interest, such as suffrage or homes for the poor. Speakers included b...