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<em>A Woman of the Century Women</em>
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<em>Women in Willard and Livermore's A Woman of the Century</em>
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McMaster, MaryKate
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Cerqueira, Danielle
Chaisson, Jackie
Cook, Brittany N.
Diallo, Binta
Del Vecchio, Lauren
Ellis, Mallory
Hoops, Katharine
McMaster, MaryKate
Miller, Robbin
Morrissey, Carla B.
Morrissey, Margaret
Mushinsky, Jackie
Osher, Alana
Parton, Katy
Ravitz, Amy
Skoog, Susan
Tirone, Trish
Vezeau, Keith
Williamson, Emily
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McMaster, MaryKate
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Page(s) in WOC
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<a href="https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_zXEEAAAAYAAJ#page/n290/mode/1up/search/27th+November" target="_blank" rel="noopener">286</a>
Name in WOC
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FEARING, Miss Lillian Blanche
Birth Name
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Fearing, Lillian Blanche
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Fearing, Blanche, 1863-1901
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<a href="http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n87117482/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fearing, Blanche 1863-1901</a>
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Please list as follows: Harland, Marion
Fearing, Blanche
Fearing, L. Blanche
Raymond, Russell
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November 27, 1853
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1863
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1861-1870
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Davenport, IA
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IA
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American
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Single
Occupation(s) in WOC
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lawyer and poet
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August 13, 1900
Bibliography
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<ul>
<li>Image - <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miss_Lillian_Blanche_Fearing_01.jpg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Miss Lillian Blance Fearing</a></li>
</ul>
By newspapers [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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<li><i>Rock Island Argus.</i> (Rock Island, Ill.), 15 Aug. 1900. <i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92053934/1900-08-15/ed-1/seq-5/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92053934/1900-08-15/ed-1/seq-5/</a>></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><i>The Western news.</i> (Stevensville, Mont.), 21 March 1900. <i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84036207/1900-03-21/ed-1/seq-3/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84036207/1900-03-21/ed-1/seq-3/</a>></li>
</ul>
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<li><i>The comet.</i> (Johnson City, Tenn.), 17 July 1890. <i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89058128/1890-07-17/ed-1/seq-1/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89058128/1890-07-17/ed-1/seq-1/</a>></li>
</ul>
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<li><i>Watertown republican.</i> (Watertown, Wis.), 23 July 1890. <i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033295/1890-07-23/ed-1/seq-7/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033295/1890-07-23/ed-1/seq-7/</a>></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><i>St. Paul daily globe.</i> (Saint Paul, Minn.), 13 June 1892. <i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059522/1892-06-13/ed-1/seq-4/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059522/1892-06-13/ed-1/seq-4/</a>></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><i>The Hartford republican.</i> (Hartford, Ky.), 13 Jan. 1893. <i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069313/1893-01-13/ed-1/seq-1/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069313/1893-01-13/ed-1/seq-1/</a>></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=newe;cc=newe;rgn=full%20text;idno=newe0013-6;didno=newe0013-6;view=image;seq=691;node=newe0013-6%3A1;page=root;size=100" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Payne, William Morton, "</a><a href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=newe;cc=newe;rgn=full%20text;idno=newe0013-6;didno=newe0013-6;view=image;seq=691;node=newe0013-6%3A1;page=root;size=100" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Literary Chicago," </a><a href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=newe;cc=newe;rgn=full%20text;idno=newe0013-6;didno=newe0013-6;view=image;seq=691;node=newe0013-6%3A1;page=root;size=100" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The New England Magazine</em> Volume 0013 Issue 6 (February 1893), </a>683-701.</li>
</ul>
<span><span><span><span><br />Courtesy of Cornell University Library, Making of America Digital Collection.<br /><br /><br /></span></span></span></span>
<ul>
<li><i>The Caldwell tribune.</i> (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]), 10 March 1894. <i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86091092/1894-03-10/ed-1/seq-3/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86091092/1894-03-10/ed-1/seq-3/</a>></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><i>he Irish standard.</i> (Minneapolis, Minn. ;), 26 Oct. 1895. <i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059959/1895-10-26/ed-1/seq-2/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059959/1895-10-26/ed-1/seq-2/</a>></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li><i>The San Francisco call.</i> (San Francisco [Calif.]), 15 Aug. 1897. <i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1897-08-15/ed-1/seq-23/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1897-08-15/ed-1/seq-23/</a>></li>
</ul>
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<li><i>The Western news.</i> (Stevensville, Mont.), 21 March 1900. <i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84036207/1900-03-21/ed-1/seq-3/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84036207/1900-03-21/ed-1/seq-3/</a>></li>
</ul>
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<li><i>Republican news item.</i> (Laport, Pa.), 15 Nov. 1900. <i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86081854/1900-11-15/ed-1/seq-7/">http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86081854/1900-11-15/ed-1/seq-7/</a>></li>
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Education
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Iowa College
Union College of Law
Personal Network
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Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1809-1894
Stedman, Edmund Clarence, 1833-1908
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892
URL
Lillian Blanche Fearing's Obituary<br /><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92053934/1900-08-15/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=1789&index=0&rows=20&words=Blanche+Fearing&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1943&proxtext=Blanche+Fearing&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1">Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.), August 15, 1900, Page 5, Image 5</a>
<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84036207/1900-03-21/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1789&index=5&rows=20&words=Blanche+Fearing&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1943&proxtext=Blanche+Fearing&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1">The Western news. (Stevensville, Mont.), March 21, 1900, Image 3</a>
<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89058128/1890-07-17/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1789&index=6&rows=20&words=Blanche+Fearing&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1943&proxtext=Blanche+Fearing&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1">The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.), July 17, 1890, Image 1</a>
<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033295/1890-07-23/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1870&sort=date&date2=1943&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=14&words=Blanche+Fearing&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Blanche+Fearing&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1">Watertown republican. (Watertown, Wis.), July 23, 1890, Image 7</a>
<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059522/1892-06-13/ed-1/seq-4/#date1=1870&sort=date&date2=1943&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=8&words=Blanche+Fear&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Blanche+Fearing&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2">St. Paul daily globe. (Saint Paul, Minn.), June 13, 1892, Page 4, Image 4</a>
<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86069313/1893-01-13/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1870&sort=date&date2=1943&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=9&words=Blanche+Fearing&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Blanche+Fearing&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2">The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.), January 13, 1893, Image 1</a>
<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86091092/1894-03-10/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1870&sort=date&date2=1943&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=12&words=Blanche+Fearing&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Blanche+Fearing&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2">The Caldwell tribune. (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]), March 10, 1894, Image 3</a>
<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059959/1895-10-26/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1870&sort=date&date2=1943&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=16&words=Blanche+Fearing&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Blanche+Fearing&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2">The Irish standard. (Minneapolis, Minn. ;), October 26, 1895, Image 2</a>
A review of The Island Lily. An Idly of the Islas of Shoals. <br /><br /><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1897-08-15/ed-1/seq-23/#date1=1870&sort=date&date2=1943&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=1&words=Blanche+Fearing&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Blanche+Fearing&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=3">The San Francisco call. (San Francisco [Calif.]), August 15, 1897, Page 23, Image 23</a>
<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84036207/1900-03-21/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1870&sort=date&date2=1943&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=4&words=Blanche+Fearing&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Blanche+Fearing&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=3">The Western news. (Stevensville, Mont.), March 21, 1900, Image 3</a>
<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86081854/1900-11-15/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1870&sort=date&date2=1943&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=6&words=Blanch+Fearing&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Blanche+Fearing&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=4">Republican news item. (Laport, Pa.), November 15, 1900, Image 7</a>
Publication
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Ex: Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Dred. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1856.
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t6d21s35h;view=1up;seq=7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fearing, Blanche, <em>In The City By The Lake. In Two Books. The Shadow, and The Slave Girl</em>. Chicago: Searle & Gorton, 1892.</a><br /><br />These publishers were women.<br /><br />Haithi Trust
<span><a href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moajrn2;cc=moajrn2;q1=Fearing;rgn=author;view=image;seq=0669;idno=newe0008-6;node=newe0008-6%3A9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fearing, L. Blanche, "The </a><span><a href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moajrn2;cc=moajrn2;q1=Fearing;rgn=author;view=image;seq=0669;idno=newe0008-6;node=newe0008-6%3A9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bivouac of Sherman's Army," </a><span><a href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moajrn2;cc=moajrn2;q1=Fearing;rgn=author;view=image;seq=0669;idno=newe0008-6;node=newe0008-6%3A9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">T<em>he New England Magazine</em> Volume 0008 Issue 6 (Aug 1890), </a><span><a href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moajrn2;cc=moajrn2;q1=Fearing;rgn=author;view=image;seq=0669;idno=newe0008-6;node=newe0008-6%3A9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">661-665.</a><br /><br />Courtesy of Cornell University Library, Making of America Digital Collection.<br /></span></span></span></span>
Fearing, Blanche. The Island Lily. An Idly of the Islas of Shoals. Chicago: Donohue & Henneberry, 1897.
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc2.ark:/13960/t0wp9tc1h;view=1up;seq=7" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fearing, Lillien Blanche. <em>The Sleeping World and Other Poems. By Lillien Blanche Fearing. </em>Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Company, 1887.</a><br /><br />Haithi Trust
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433074807714;view=1up;seq=5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fearing, Blanche. </a><span><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433074807714;view=1up;seq=5" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Asleep and awake / by Raymond Russell</em> [pseud.] Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Company, 1893.</a><br /><br /><br />Haithi Trust<br /></span>
Publisher
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Searle & Gorton
Donohue & Henneberry
A.C. McClurg & Co.
Charles H. Kerr Company
Periodical
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BOSTON TRANSCRIPT
CHICAGO WOMAN'S TIMES
NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE (BAY STATE MONTHLY 1884-1886)
Places Resided
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Davenport, IA; Vinton, IA; Chicago, IL; Eureka Heights, IL
Location (Address, City/Town, State [if USA] or Country)
Location
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Davenport, IA
Vinton, IA
Chicago, IL
Eureka Heights, IL
Notes
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<em>A Woman of the Century</em> lists her first name as Lillian, but her T<em>he Sleeping World and Other Poems</em> lists it as Lillien.
Occupation
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Please put each occupation or activity in a separate box.
Lawyer
Author
Poet
Novelist
Parent
Did they individual have children?
No
Dublin Core
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Title
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FEARING, Miss Lillian Blanche
Contributor
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McMaster, MaryKate
Coverage
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Lillian Blanche Fearing was born in Davenport, IA on November 27, 1863. She later lived in Vinton, IA, Chicago, IL., and Eureka Heights, IL.
Subject
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Blind authors
Blind lawyers
Blind poets
Description
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Author and lawyer Lillian Blanche Fearing was born in Davenport, Iowa, on November 27, 1863. Despite being blind from birth, Lillian achieved much during her lifetime. Lillian's obituary in the <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn92053934/1900-08-15/ed-1/seq-5/#date1=1789&index=0&rows=20&words=Blanche+Fearing&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1943&proxtext=Blanche+Fearing&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Rock Island Argus</em></a> notes, in part:<br /><br />"At the age of 8 she published her first poem, and by the time she was 12 years old her verses were appearing regularly in the Boston Transcript. Personal letters commending her work were sent her by <a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/MDP/items/show/136" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Oliver Wendell Holmes</a>, John G. Whittier, and Edmund Clarence Stedman."<br /><br />When she was taking courses at Union College of Law in Chicago, Lillian's mother "was her constant companion and read books to her" <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn89058128/1890-07-17/ed-1/seq-1/#date1=1789&index=6&rows=20&words=Blanche+Fearing&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1943&proxtext=Blanche+Fearing&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">(<em>The Comet</em></a>). When she graduated, Lillian was the only woman in her class and one of four scholarship recipients (<em><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85033295/1890-07-23/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1870&sort=date&date2=1943&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=14&words=Blanche+Fearing&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Blanche+Fearing&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Watertown Republican</a></em>).<br /><br />Well regarded by her peers, Lillian was one of the people feated in literary critic William Morton Payne's "Literary Chicago" in the February 1893 edition of <em>New England Magazine</em>. The article mentioned many men and women, including Eliza Allen Starr, Olive Thorne Miller, Amanda T. Jones, Harriet Monroe, and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Payne praised Fearing's work as "remarkable" and, speaking of her poem "In The City By The Lake," he noted: "A note of song stronger and more sustained has hardly been sounded by any other American woman" (<a href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=newe;cc=newe;rgn=full%20text;idno=newe0013-6;didno=newe0013-6;view=image;seq=704;node=newe0013-6%3A1;page=root;size=100" target="_blank" rel="noopener">696</a>). Readers of <em>New England Magazine</em> would have known of Lillian, since she had published <a href="http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moajrn2;cc=moajrn2;q1=Fearing;rgn=author;view=image;seq=0669;idno=newe0008-6;node=newe0008-6%3A9" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"The Bivouac of Sherman's Army"</a> in that periodical's August 1890 issue.<br /><br />In 1894, Lillian wrote a piece for <em>Chicago Woman's Times</em> about the need for a different title than Miss for adult single women. She noted that males are called master and then Mr., but that females are addressed as Miss until they are married. She was perturbed that it took marriage to allow a woman to have a mature adult title. Lillian's words were reprinted in the March 10, 1894 edition of <em><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86091092/1894-03-10/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1870&sort=date&date2=1943&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=12&words=Blanche+Fearing&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Blanche+Fearing&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Caldwell Tribune</a></em> (Idaho Territory), giving her thoughts an even larger audience.<br /><br />Throughout her life, Lillian received praise in the press for her work as a lawyer, her writing, and her phenomenal work ethic. <em><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059959/1895-10-26/ed-1/seq-2/#date1=1870&sort=date&date2=1943&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=16&words=Blanche+Fearing&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Blanche+Fearing&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Irish Standard's</a></em> characterization of her serves as a fine example of the admiration Lillian's contemporaries had for her: <br /><br />"Miss Blanche Fearing is a graduate of the Chicago Law School and surely finding her way to a successful legal career. She is a poet, also, but her verses do not begin with 'whereases' or 'know all men,' etc., but are marked by the true poetic quality. Miss Fearing's profession means a livelihood to her. Her literary work is the overflow of her life. When it is known that Miss Fearing is entirely blind, the courage, enthusiasm, and perseverance that her work in these two lines exhibits fill one with admiration for the beauty and strength of character that so triumph over untoward circumstances and make life so noble, useful and sweet."<br /><br />She was very fortunate to have a supportive family. According to the <em><a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86081854/1900-11-15/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1870&sort=date&date2=1943&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=6&words=Blanch+Fearing&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Blanche+Fearing&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Republican News Item</a></em>, Lillian's mother and sister played the crucial role of reading legal documents to her. <br /><br />Lillian's image and a discussion about her were included in <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1896-12-13/ed-1/seq-19/#date1=1870&sort=date&date2=1943&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=18&words=Blanche+Fearing&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Blanche+Fearing&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=2" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Women Lawyers of America,"</a> a lengthy December 13, 1896, article in <em>The San Francisco Call</em>. Others noted included local lawyer Clara Shortridge Foltz, <a href="http://www.marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/64" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Myra Bradwell</a>, Ellen A. Martin, Kate Pier, Ada Miser Kepley, Ella Humphrey Haddock, and Cornelia Hood.<br /><br />On March 21, 1900, <a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84036207/1900-03-21/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1870&sort=date&date2=1943&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&index=4&words=Blanche+Fearing&proxdistance=5&state=&rows=20&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Blanche+Fearing&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=3" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>The Western News</em></a> dedicated an article, "Blind From Infancy: This Girl is Now Widely Known as a Writer and Lawyer." While the use of the word "girl" must not have pleased Lillian, she must have been happy to hear that the paper had written about her and called her "a dual success in her dual professions of author and lawyer."<br /><br />Unfortunately, Lillian passed away in Eureka Heights, Illinois, later that year. When she died on August 13, 1900, this courageous woman was just thirty-six years old.
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A.C. McClurg & Co.
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Boston Transcript
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Chicago Woman's Times
Davenport
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Donohue & Henneberry
Edmund Clarence Stedman
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John Greenleaf Whittier
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<a href="https://lccn.loc.gov/no2009002825" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Glenwood, Ida, 1829-1894</a>
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GORTON, Mrs. Cynthia M. R.
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Willard, Emma, 1787-1870
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<a href=" https://archive.org/details/womanofcenturyfo00will/page/328/mode/1up?q=Gorton" target="_blank" rel="noopener">328</a>
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<li><a href="https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030634921#page/n281/mode/2up/search/Gorton" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Roberts, Cynthia M.</a> in <em>Emma Willard and Her Pupils or Fifty Years of Troy Female Seminary</em>. New York: Mrs. Russel Sage, c1898.</li>
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<li><i>St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume]</i><span> </span>(St. Johnsbury, Vt.), 08 June 1893.<span> </span><i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1893-06-08/ed-1/seq-2/">https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1893-06-08/ed-1/seq-2/</a>></li>
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<li><i>Thomas County cat. [volume]</i><span> </span>(Colby, Kan.), 02 Dec. 1886.<span> </span><i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85032814/1886-12-02/ed-1/seq-8/">https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85032814/1886-12-02/ed-1/seq-8/</a>></li>
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<li><i>Weekly expositor.</i><span> </span>(Brockway Centre, Mich.), 10 Aug. 1894.<span> </span><i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn2006060001/1894-08-10/ed-1/seq-6/">https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn2006060001/1894-08-10/ed-1/seq-6/</a>></li>
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<li><i>The Cincinnati daily star. [volume]</i><span> </span>([Cincinnati, Ohio]), 14 April 1877.<span> </span><i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <<a href="https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025759/1877-04-14/ed-1/seq-3/">https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025759/1877-04-14/ed-1/seq-3/</a>></li>
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CHRISTIAN HERALD (DETROIT)
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Roberts, Cynthia
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GORTON, Mrs. Cynthia M. R.
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Cynthia M. R. Gorton was born on February 27, 1826 in
Great Barrington, MA. She later lived in Troy, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Hartford, CT, and Fenton, MI.
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cynthia M. Roberts Gorton was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on February 27, 1826. While attending </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/15"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Troy Female Seminary</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, she began to lose her sight. After Cynthia married Frederick Gorton, she became totally blind. However, this determined woman did not let her blindness stop her. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The couple moved to Fenton, Michigan, and Cynthia became a popular lecturer. In her talks, Gorton spoke to her audiences about </span><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85025759/1877-04-14/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1789&index=6&rows=20&searchType=advanced&language=&sequence=0&words=Glenwood+Ida&proxdistance=5&date2=1924&ortext=&proxtext=&phrasetext=Ida+Glenwood&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">temperance</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and other topics she was passionate about. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Professionally, Cynthia was known as "Ida Glenwood," "The Blind Bard of Michigan," and "The Sweet Singer." In addition to penning several books, including </span><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015071600418;view=1up;seq=7"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lily Pearl and the Mistress of Rosedale</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, she contributed to </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Christian Herald </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">of Detroit</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span><a href="http://marykatemcmaster.org/WOC/items/show/121"><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Magazine of Poetry</span></i></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On August 10, 1894, Cynthia M. Roberts Gorton died at her home in Fenton, Michigan.</span></p>
1821-1830
1829
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Authors
Blind Bard of Michigan
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Christian Herald
Cynthia M. R. Gorton
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Emma Willard
February
Great Barrington
Ida Glenwood
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Reform
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Temperance
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Troy Female Seminary
women as authors