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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sarah Boone: First Connecticut Black Woman to Receive Patent
2023年2月10日 · In Connecticut, Sarah Boone’s was one of a long line of patents issued to women, beginning with Mary D. Kies of South Killingly. Kies’ patent, issued on May 5, 1809, for weaving straw with silk and thread, was used to make hats. Unfortunately, the patent was lost when a fire destroyed the US Patent Office in 1836.
The Decorative Arts of Connecticut
2015年4月3日 · By Ann Y. Smith. The decorative arts are the useful objects of everyday life: furniture, textiles, tableware, lighting, and other furnishings. Crafted of materials such as wood, horn, fiber, ceramics, glass, pewter, tin, and silver, decorative arts reflect life at home as well as the experience of the craftsmen who made them.
Katharine Hepburn Born – Today in History: May 12
2021年5月12日 · Hurricane of 1938 - Connecticut Historical Society. On May 12, 1907, stage and screen legend Katharine Hepburn was born to Hartford physician Thomas Norval Hepburn and women’s right activist Katharine Houghton Hepburn. In her six-decade-long career as an actress, she won four Oscars for best actress—her first in 1933 for the film Morning ...