Overview
Letters written by feminist, suffragist, journalist, and human rights advocate Alice Stone Blackwell.
Dates
- Creation: 1905
Language of Materials
Materials in English.
Access Restrictions:
Access. Originals closed; use digital images.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. Copyright in the papers created by Alice Stone Blackwell as well as copyright in other papers in the collection may be held by their authors, or the authors' heirs or assigns.
Copying. Papers may be copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures.
Extent
1 folderCollections consists of a postcard and a letter written by Alice Stone Blackwell to her aunt Emily Blackwell. Topics include a trip on the Canadian Pacific Railway with father Henry Browne Blackwell, Henry Stone Blackwell climbing a glacier, walking around Lake Louise in Alberta, Canada, concern with events in Russia, and pleasure in seeing her old friends, the Ripleys, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Alice Stone Blackwell also described a speech she gave to a group of women doctors regarding the medical careers of Emily and Elizabeth Blackwell.
BIOGRAPHY
Alice Stone Blackwell was born on September 14, 1857, to Lucy Stone and Henry Browne Blackwell in Orange, New Jersey. The Blackwell family moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1870, and Alice Stone Blackwell attended schools in the Boston area. Blackwell graduated from Boston University in 1881; she was one of two women in her graduating class. After graduation, Blackwell joined her parents at The Woman's Journal, the women's rights newspaper they had founded and edited. Blackwell served as secretary for the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1890 to 1918. She also served as president of the New England and Massachusetts Woman Suffrage associations and honorary president of the Massachusetts League of Women Voters.
Alice Stone Blackwell supported numerous humanitarian causes. She was affiliated with Friends of Russian Freedom, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and the NAACP, among other organizations. Blackwell also translated the works of Mexican, Armenian, Russian, Yiddish, and Hungarian poets into English. Alice Stone Blackwell died on March 15, 1950, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Accession number: 79-M283
The letters of Alice Stone Blackwell were given to the Schlesinger Library by Margo Horn in 1979.
Processing Information
Updated and additional description added: September 2020
By: Cat Lea Holbrook
The Schlesinger Library attempts to provide a basic level of preservation and access for all collections, and does more extensive processing of higher priority collections as time and resources permit. Finding aids may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- Author
- Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America
- Language of description
- eng
- Sponsor
- Processing of this collection was made possible by the Zetlin Sisters Fund and the Jane Rainie Opel '50 Fund.
- EAD ID
- sch01850
Repository Details
Part of the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute Repository
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