Women - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project
2012年3月14日 · Women - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project. From their unsung labors to society-changing accomplishments, Connecticut’s women have contributed to diversified fields of endeavor. During colonial times, they kept farms, homes, and businesses running—despite restrictions that then, and long after, barred them from the same rights as men.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Connecticut History
2023年3月28日 · By Amy Gagnon. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a noted writer, lecturer, economist, and theorist who fought for women’s domestic rights and women’s suffrage in the early 1900s. Born in Hartford to Frederick Beecher Perkins and Mary Fitch Westcott Perkins, Charlotte Anna Perkins had one brother, Thomas Adie, 14 months her senior.
Catharine Beecher, Champion of Women’s Education
2021年9月12日 · The eldest child of the renowned Beecher clan, Catharine was born in East Hampton, New York, in 1800. When she was 10, her family moved to Litchfield, where she received her first formal education at Sarah Pierce ’s Academy for Young Women. Beecher’s mother, Roxanna Foote Beecher, died in 1816 of tuberculosis, leaving 16-year-old Catharine ...
Emmeline Pankhurst’s “Freedom or Death” Speech Energizes …
2022年7月20日 · On July 2, 1928, the English Parliament granted women the same voting rights as men. Emmeline Pankhurst, however, did not live to see her activism come to fruition as she died several weeks earlier. Women in the United States earned the right to vote eight years prior when Congress ratified the 19th amendment on August 18, 1920.
Rosa Ponselle: Meriden’s Famous Musical Daughter
2023年12月12日 · A Musical Family. Born on January 22, 1897, in Meriden, Connecticut, Rosa emerged from humble beginnings as the daughter of Italian immigrants. She grew up in the close-knit Italian American neighborhood of Springdale Avenue in Meriden. The musical journey of the Ponzillo family was set in motion by Rosa’s older siblings, Anthony and Carmella ...
Medicine Woman Gladys Tantaquidgeon and Mohegan Cultural …
2022年3月8日 · Tantaquidgeon’s lineage is traceable to Uncas, the famous 17th-century Mohegan Sachem who became a controversial figure in Native American history due to his collaboration with the English during the Pequot War. Despite the negative implications of an English alliance, Uncas was able to secure the safety of his people during a time when many ...
Benjamin Spock: Raising the World’s Children
2023年3月30日 · Benjamin Spock was born on May 2, 1903, in New Haven, Connecticut. His father was a corporate attorney who worked at various times for the New Haven Railroad and the Chase Brass Company in Waterbury. Like his father, Spock attended school at the Phillips Academy and Yale University. In addition to being an outstanding student at Yale, Spock ...
Ann Petry: Old Saybrook’s Bestselling African American Author
2022年5月31日 · It was met with great success and became a bestseller—the first book by an African American woman to sell over a million copies. Literary critics often put Petry’s The Street in conversation with other famous works such as Richard Wright’s Native Son, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, and James Baldwin’s work. According to scholar ...
Helen Keller in Connecticut: The Last Years of a Legendary Crusader
2021年5月31日 · One of the most famous women in the world lived the last years of her life in Connecticut—Easton, Connecticut, to be exact. In 1936, Helen Keller moved to a sprawling house that she named Arcan Ridge, where she lived for more than 30 years with her many dogs and her assistant, Polly Thompson.
[Archived] Ida Tarbell: The Woman Who Took On Standard Oil
2022年1月6日 · She also accepted an offer from McClure to work for his new venture, McClure’s Magazine, where she undertook her most famous work, her expose of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Company. Her study of Rockefeller’s practices as he built Standard Oil into one of the world’s largest business monopolies took many years to complete.