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Education | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | Female students quickly realized that Oberlin had no intention of preparing them for public work, let alone the ministry. Women were excluded from class discussions and prohibited from public speaking. In June of 1846, ABB |
Family and Intimate relationships | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | ABB
was introduced to her future husband, |
Family and Intimate relationships | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | By their marriages, ABB
and Lucy Stone
became sisters-in-law of Elizabeth Blackwell
, the first woman to qualify as a physician in the USA. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | Apart from her husband, Lucy Stone
was ABB
's closest companion. Their lifelong relationship, begun at college, was founded on shared religious views and their determination to improve social conditions for women. Blackwell credits Stone... |
Friends, Associates | Julia Ward Howe | JWH
's membership of the Boston Radical Club
was an important source of literary contacts for her. Formed in the fall of 1867, the club met monthly in the home of the Reverend John T. Sargent |
Friends, Associates | Julia Ward Howe | Higginson was an outspoken supporter of woman's right to vote. He invited Howe to attend her first suffrage meeting in November 1868, where she was introduced to Lucy Stone
. For a time he served... |
Friends, Associates | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | Antoinette Brown met Lucy Stone
during her first few weeks at Oberlin College
. In her journal Brown mentioned her hopes that the two would become friends after she had heard Stone described by an... |
Performance of text | Sojourner Truth | At the national conference for women's rights in Worcester, Massachusetts (where Lucy Stone
was present, though not Elizabeth Cady Stanton
or Susan B. Anthony
, ST
gave one of the first of her well-known public addresses. Painter, Nell Irvin. Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. W. W. Norton, 1996. 115 Dow, Bonnie J. “How the Battle of Memory Was Won”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol. 31 , No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2014, pp. 3-4. 3 |
politics | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | Considered to be conservative as a suffragist, though reformist in her views, ABB
believed that religion had the potential to empower women and promote equality if the church allowed them into leadership roles. Radicals such... |
politics | Julia Ward Howe | Howe was introduced to Lucy Stone
at a women's suffrage meeting at Boston's Horticultural Hall in November 1868. Howe, Julia Ward. Reminiscences, 1819–1899. Houghton Mifflin, 1899. 374 |
politics | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | Antoinette Brown (later ABB
), attending the first Cazden, Elizabeth. Antoinette Brown Blackwell. Feminist Press, 1983. 55-57, 302 Worcester Women’s History Project. http://www.wwhp.org/Resources/. Historical Library |
Travel | Fredrika Bremer | She spent just three days in London on her outward journey en route for Liverpool, because of a cholera epidemic. A report that she was expected in Liverpool in summer 1845 seems to have been... |