![]() ![]() Constance Markievicz (nee Gore-Booth)was a daughter of Henry Gore-Booth the Anglo-Irish landlord of Lissadell House. Constance Georgina de Markievicz. A book launch in conjunction with the exhibition opening of Moderns In Our Midst: A Photographic Tribute to Singapore’s Modern Architectural Heritage. 1919: Bodileys shop was established in Northampton. 1920 “Uncle Bod”, Sarah’s great uncle, joins his father to run Bodileys. 1927: George Webb, Sarah’s great. Although he never held public office, George S. Jeffrey barber, orator, and post-reconstruction civil rights leader, emerged as one of the most important African. Return to Timeline introduction 1910 AD to 1919 AD Events listed relate to Canadian women with a few extra items added to give the timeline perspective. The walk continues up, down, and across Beacon Hill, often paralleling the Black Heritage Trail. Starting with intense activity in the period before and after the Civil War and continuing into the nineteenth century, women writers and artists living here supported social movements ranging from anti- slavery to suffrage. The walk pays particular attention to the story of Beacon Hill. Beacon Hill is a designated Historic District with narrow, steep, sometimes cobblestone streets, and brick homes featuring beautiful doorways and window boxes. It was first developed by the Mount Vernon Proprietors in 1. Charles Street along its western edge includes antique and specialty shops, restaurants, and grocery stores. Begins: T Directions: Go to the statue of Mary Dyer in front of the East Wing. Time: 1 1/2 hours Begins: Massachusetts State House. Directions: Go to the statue of Mary Dyer in front of the East Wing.(Click on a number for details on each site.)1: Statues of Women Dissenters: Mary Dyer and Anne Hutchinson. State House, fronting the East and West Wings. Two of Boston. 1. Anne Hutchinson (1. Mary Dyer, a Quaker, witnessed on the Boston Common two times before she was hung for heresy. Anne Hutchinson was banished from Boston after she accused the Puritan oligarchy of preaching that . As a pledge of their friendship and shared belief in the role of religious dissenters, Mary Dyer walked beside Hutchinson after she was excommunicated from the Puritan church. Return to top. 2: Hepzibah Clarke Swan and Julia Ward Howe. Chestnut Street. Designed by Charles Bulfinch ca. Boston women: Hepzibah Clarke Swan (1. Julia Ward Howe (1. Swan was one of the five original members of the Mount Vernon proprietors whose goal was to transform Beacon Hill into a fashionable neighborhood. She built the three row houses at numbers 1. Her collection of French furnishings is now in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, as are several of the family portraits she commissioned Gilbert Stuart to paint. Julia Ward Howe, who is best known as the author of The Battle Hymn of the Republic written at the beginning of the Civil War, lived at 1. Chestnut during that period, one of her several residences in Boston. Howe was a noted reformer and early participant in the women. She was joined by a group of women, including Caroline Severance (1. New England Women. Howe was a leader in the woman suffrage movement and helped found the Woman. Howe read papers at the meetings of the Radical Club, a club for women and men who were . She traveled extensively throughout the world and developed an interest in international politics. She left her house to the public and as a place for offices of organizations promoting international friendship. Return to top. 4: Portia School of Law. Mount Vernon Street Portia School of Law began in 1. Massachusetts bar examination asked Attorney Arthur W. Mac. Lean to tutor them. His wife, Bertha Mac. Lean, named the nascent school after . The informal school expanded and became the only school providing legal education for women exclusively. In 1. 92. 0 the first L. L. B. She later became the first African American woman admitted to practice in the U. S. District Court in the state. The first woman president of the Board of Trustees of New England School of Law was Anna E. Hirsch (1. 90. 2- 9. Portia Law. Hirsch was elected register of probate for Norfolk County in 1. Return to top. 5: Elizabeth Peabody. Influenced by the ideas of Friedrich Fr. She was a link between the visionaries of the Transcendental movement and educational reformers. Return to top. 6: Home of Louisa May Alcott. Pinckney Street Although author Louisa May Alcott (1. Little Women, describing her family life in Concord, Massachusetts, she had several Boston homes. The daughter of famed Transcendentalist Bronson Alcott, she lived here in rented rooms as a child. As an adult, she often stayed with other reformist women in the . Dio Lewis, principal of Boston. In the last decade of her life, Alcott purchased a home for her family at 1. Louisburg Square, but was too ill to enjoy it for herself. She died at the age of 5. Civil War nurse. Return to top. Museum of African American History and Abiel Smith School 4. Joy Street. The Museum of African American History, which was founded in 1. Sue Bailey Thurman (1. African Meeting House in 1. Among its former directors was Ruth Batson (1. Boston. She was chairperson of the education committee of the Boston NAACP that led the fight in the early 1. Boston Public Schools and a founder and later director of the METCO voluntary desegregation program. The Abiel Smith School served African American children from 1. The change was prompted by the actions of Benjamin Roberts, an African American, who sued the city in 1. Sarah Roberts was unlawfully refused entrance to five schools between her home and the Smith School. Although Roberts lost his case despite the help of prominent abolitionists, his actions had the long term effect of opening all Boston Public Schools to African American children. Return to top. 8: African Meeting House 8 Smith Court. The church, the oldest standing African American church building in America, was built in 1. Boston! No longer sleep nor slumber, but distinguish yourselves. Show forth to the world that ye are endowed with noble and exalted faculties. William Lloyd Garrison founded the New England Anti- Slavery society here in 1. Escaped slaves William and Ellen Craft (1. Return to top. 9: Home of Rebecca Lee Crumpler. Joy Street Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1. African American woman doctor. Born in Delaware, Crumpler was raised in Pennsylvania by an aunt. She came to Charlestown in 1. After she received her degree, she practiced in post Civil War Virginia. Arthur Crumpler, she next moved back to Boston where she set up her medical practice on Joy Street. She focused on women and children and emphasized nutrition and preventive medicine. She pulled together her experiences and knowledge in A Book of Medical Discourses in Two Parts. Return to top. 10: The Vilna Shul 1. Phillips Street. The Vilna Shul was built in 1. Jewish community on Beacon Hill as a synagogue and community center. Although it closed in 1. Jewish culturalcenter. Before they built the synagogue, the congregation of Lithuanian Jews worshipped in temporary spaces for nearly twenty- five years. They named the synagogue for the city of Vilnius, because they considered it to be the center of Jewish culture in Lithuania. Many of the original members of the congregation emigrated from Vilnius where there was a large and thriving Jewish community. Only a few decades later it was destroyed by the Holocaust. The names of the women who were among the founding members of the synagogue are listed in a plaque in the back of the sanctuary. Although the entire congregation sat on the same level, the women. The Vilna Shul is also a significant site because it represents the large Jewish community who made their first Boston homes in the old West End and on the north slope of Beacon Hill. Return to top. 11: View of Massachusetts General Hospital, Linda Richards and Mary Eliza Mahoney(from corner of Phillips and Grove Streets)Linda Richards (1. In 1. 87. 3 she had received the first diploma from the country. The hospital, founded in Roxbury in 1. Dr. Marie Zakrzewska (1. Dimock Community Health Center. The Palmer- Davis Library at Massachusetts General is named for Sophia Palmer (1. Mary E. Davis (1. Linda Richards. Palmer and Davis co- founded the American Journal of Nursing and created the American Nurses Association by bringing together alumnae associations of nurses. Mahoney is honored by a medal awarded annually by the American Nurses Association. Mary Vincent (1. 81. Vincent Memorial Hospital, part of Massachusetts General, in her memory in 1. The women of the Vincent Club continue to raise money by producing an annual theatrical show. The hospital pioneered in women. In 1. 84. 8 she disguised herself as her master, bandaged as if ill, and tended to by her husband as if he were the slave. They escaped from Georgia by taking the train and steamer to Boston. After two years in Boston where they were active in the anti- slavery cause, they sailed to England, staying until after the Civil War because the new Fugitive Slave Law endangered their lives. Lewis Hayden, both born slaves, owned this house for more than forty years. They worked with Underground Railroad . Harriet Hayden bequeathed a scholarship for . Paul was also an officer in the Boston Female Anti- Slavery Society founded by Maria Weston Chapman in 1. D2. 4). She was the daughter of Thomas Paul, the founder of the African Baptist Church, and supported her mother after his death. Some of her letters were printed in William Lloyd Garrison. In 1. 83. 4 she wrote to condemn the . The sisters moved to three townhouses on Louisburg Square in 1. Here, they expanded their nursing and evangelical teachings to reach the sick and poor on Beacon Hill and its environs. See stop #6 above. Return to top. 15: Anne Whitney Studio. Mount Vernon Street. The window on the top of this building marked the studio for two decades of sculptor Anne Whitney (1. American women sculptors gathering around actress Charlotte Cushman (see N1. Rome in the mid- nineteenth century. In 1. 87. 3, soon after Whitney returned to Boston, she received a commission for the statue of Sam Adams now standing outside Faneuil Hall. Her statue of Leif Eriksson is on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall (see BBE1, BBW2. Her bust of Lucy Stone is in the Boston Public Library, and her sculpture of abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison is in the Massachusetts Historical Society. Whitney had a . During the late Victorian era, such marriages between women, generally professional and upper class, were both common and accepted by society at large. Return to top. 16: Home of Margaret Deland. Mount Vernon Street. Margaret Deland (1. Her twenty- five works of fiction were set both in historical and modern times and dealt with making ethical decisions in different settings.
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