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Association for the Advancement of Women
A women's organization founded in 1873.
HANAFORD, Rev. Phebe Anne
Phebe Anne Hanaford, a Nantucket, MA native who was bornon May 6, 1829, wrote her own collective biography of women, Women of the Century. In addition to writing this book and many others, and editing two periodicals, Phebe was a well known…
HOFFMAN, Mrs. Sophia Curtiss
Philanthropist and women's rights advocate Sophia Curtiss Hoffman was born in Sheffield, Massachusetts, on November 24, 1825. Emma Curtiss Bascom, her younger sister, is also inA Woman of the Century.Sophia married George Hoffman and moved to New…
MOTT, Mrs. Lucretia
Reformer Lucretia Coffin Mott was born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on January 3, 1793. She was related to Nantucket natives Anna Gardnerm Rev. Phebe Anne Hanaford, and Juliet H. Severance, as well as to Benjamin Franklin.Lucretia's Quaker family…
New England Woman's Press Association
The New England Woman's Press Association was founded in 1885. Its history is recorded in History of the New England Woman's Press Association, 1885-1931, Myra B. Lord's 1932 book.
Sorosis
Organization of literary and professional women.
Founded in 1868
Founded in 1868
WOODBRIDGE, Mrs. Mary A. Brayton
Mary A. Brayton Woodbridge, born in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on April 21, 1830, was a temperance reformer. She married Frederick Wells Woodbridge when she was seventeen years old, and the couple settled in Cleveland, Ohio. Mary became a mother, and…