Isabella Beecher Hooker

(Microfiche Edition)

Stowe-Day Foundation

Additional information at http://www.worldcat.org/title/isabella-beecher-hooker-project-a-microfiche-edition-of-her-papers-and-suffrage-related-correspondence-owned-by-the-stowe-day-foundation/oclc/639880519

Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822 –1907) was a leader, feminist, lecturer and activist in the American Suffragist movement. She participated in the founding of the New England Women Suffrage Association and founded the Connecticut Women Association and Society for the Study of Political Science. She was a friend to both Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and helped them found the National Woman Suffrage Association.. Mrs. Hooker, together with her husband, John Hooker, a prominent Connecticut attorney and judge, wrote and presented a bill to the Connecticut General Assembly in 1870 that provided married women with property rights. Hooker worked for over thirty years to forward the cause of woman suffrage. This edition contains more than 1,700 documents. Correspondents include Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Victoria Woodhull, Olympia Brown, and Matilda J. Gage.

144 microfiche