Women - Connecticut History | a CTHumanities Project
17 Nov 2024 at 5:20pm
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
12 Nov 2024 at 10:24am
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
13 Nov 2024 at 1:00pm
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 Connecticut ...
20 Nov 2024 at 3:05am
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 Renewal
19 Nov 2024 at 8:52pm
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 ...
Katharine Houghton Hepburn, A Woman Before Her Time
14 Nov 2024 at 8:01pm
Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn. In 1904 Katharine Houghton married Thomas Norval Hepburn during his last year of medical school at Johns Hopkins, where her sister Edith was also a student. After Tom finished his medical training, the Hepburns moved to Hartford, which remained home for the rest of their lives. Between 1905 and 1918, the Hepburns had six ...
Rosa Ponselle: Meriden?s Famous Musical Daughter
12 Nov 2024 at 7:35pm
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
14 Nov 2024 at 3:00pm
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 ...
Benjamin Spock: Raising the World?s Children
14 Nov 2024 at 5:06am
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 ...
Helen Keller in Connecticut: The Last Years of a Legendary Crusader
19 Nov 2024 at 6:22pm
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.
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17 Nov 2024 at 5:20pm
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
12 Nov 2024 at 10:24am
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
13 Nov 2024 at 1:00pm
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 Connecticut ...
20 Nov 2024 at 3:05am
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 Renewal
19 Nov 2024 at 8:52pm
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 ...
Katharine Houghton Hepburn, A Woman Before Her Time
14 Nov 2024 at 8:01pm
Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn. In 1904 Katharine Houghton married Thomas Norval Hepburn during his last year of medical school at Johns Hopkins, where her sister Edith was also a student. After Tom finished his medical training, the Hepburns moved to Hartford, which remained home for the rest of their lives. Between 1905 and 1918, the Hepburns had six ...
Rosa Ponselle: Meriden?s Famous Musical Daughter
12 Nov 2024 at 7:35pm
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
14 Nov 2024 at 3:00pm
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 ...
Benjamin Spock: Raising the World?s Children
14 Nov 2024 at 5:06am
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 ...
Helen Keller in Connecticut: The Last Years of a Legendary Crusader
19 Nov 2024 at 6:22pm
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.
WHAT IS THIS? This is an unscreened compilation of results from several search engines. The sites listed are not necessarily recommended by Surfnetkids.com.
