Frances Elizabeth Willard (1839–1898)
Autore di How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle: Reflections of an Influential 19th Century Woman
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Opere di Frances Elizabeth Willard
Woman and temperance; or, The work and workers of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union (1977) 3 copie
Occupations For Women: A Book Of Practical Suggestions, For The Material Advancement, The Mental And Physical… (2012) 3 copie
American Women: Fifteen Hundred Biographies with Over 1,400 Portraits, A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of the Lives and… — A cura di — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1839-09-28
- Data di morte
- 1898-2-17
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Churchville, New York, USA
- Luogo di morte
- New York, New York, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Churchville, New York, USA
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Oberlin, Ohio, USA - Istruzione
- Northwestern Female College, Evanston, Illinois, USA
- Attività lavorative
- teacher
social reformer
autobiographer
suffragist
political activist
public speaker - Organizzazioni
- Women's Christian Temperance Union
- Breve biografia
- Frances Willard was born in Churchville, New York and grew up in in Janesville, then on the Wisconsin frontier. In 1859, she graduated from the Northwestern Female College in Evanston, Illinois. She taught school for several years before travelling extensively in Europe with a friend in 1868-1870. After her return, she became president of the newly-established Evanston College for Ladies, which was associated with Northwestern University. When the college was absorbed by Northwestern in 1873, Frances Willard became dean of women -- one of the first female administrators to hold such a position at a major co-educational university -- and professor of English and art. In 1874, she was chosen to be corresponding secretary of the new Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU).
She became a popular public speaker and an influential leader of the women's suffrage movement as well as of efforts to end alcohol and drug abuse. In 1879, she was elected president of the WCTU, a post she held for the rest of her life.
Under her leadership, the WCTU evolved into into a broader women’s rights movement with a range of other social concerns, creating national public education and political pressure campaigns. In 1888, she joined May Wright Sewall at the International Council of Women meeting in Washington, D.C., and laid the groundwork for a permanent National Council of Women, which she served as the first president.
She was a regular contributor to national periodicals and WCTU publications. She published her autobiography, Glimpses of Fifty Years, in 1889. Two years later, she became president of the World WCTU. Her suffered from chronic anemia and died at age 58 in 1898.
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