Lillie devereux blake biography examples

Goodier, Susan and Pastorello, Karen. "Notes". Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017, pp. 203-266. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501713200-015

Goodier, S. & Pastorello, K. (2017). Notes. In Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State (pp. 203-266). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501713200-015

Goodier, S. and Pastorello, K. 2017. Notes. Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, pp. 203-266. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501713200-015

Goodier, Susan and Pastorello, Karen. "Notes" In Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State, 203-266. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501713200-015

Goodier S, Pastorello K. Notes. In: Women Will Vote: Winning Suffrage in New York State. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press; 2017. p.203-266. https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501713200-015

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American woman suffragist, reformer and writer

Lillie Devereux Blake, pen name, Tiger Lily; (August 12, 1833 – December 30, 1913) was an Americanwoman suffragist, reformer, and writer, born in Raleigh, North Carolina and educated in New Haven, Connecticut. In her early years, Blake wrote several novels and for the press. In 1869, she became actively interested in the woman suffrage movement and devoted herself to pushing the reform, arranging conventions, getting up public meetings, writing articles, and occasionally making lecture tours. A woman of strong affections and marked domestic tastes, she did not allow her public work to interfere with her home duties, and her speaking outside of New York City was almost wholly done in the summer, when her family was naturally scattered. In 1872, she published a novel entitled Fettered for Life that was designed to show the many disadvantages under which women labor. In 1873, she made an application for the opening of Columbia College to young women as well as young men, presenting a class of young women students qualified to enter the university. The agitation then begun, led to the establishment of Barnard College.

In 1879, she was unanimously elected president of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association, an office that she held for eleven years. During that period, she made a tour of the state every summer, arranged conventions, and each year conducted a legislative campaign, many times addressing committees of the senate and assembly. In 1880, largely through her efforts the school suffrage law was passed. In each year woman suffrage bills were introduced and pushed to a vote in one or both of the branches of the legislature. In 1883, the Rev. Morgan Dix, D.D., delivered a series of Lenten discourses on " Woman", presenting a most conservative view of her duties. Blake replied to each lecture in an able address, advocating more advanced ideas. Her lectures were printed under the

A Celebration of Women Writers

OUR FORGOTTEN FOREMOTHERS.
By MRS. LILLIE DEVEREUX BLAKE.

In speaking of "Our Forgotten Foremothers" I shall begin with that great queen who, in some sort, may be considered not only as the foremother of this nation, but of the whole New World—Isabella of Castile. Her clear intellect first grasped the thought that there might be a continent to be discovered, when her husband, her councilors and her courtiers all derided the claims of Columbus as mere idle dreams. Her steadfastness sustained him through all his vicissitudes, and at last her action gave him the money with which to fit out the expedition. Next after our debt to the intrepid navigator, this country owes its gratitude to the brave queen. And yet how completely has she been forgotten in all the celebrations and festivities of this commemorative year! Orators speak of the great enterprise of Columbus, poets rhymed in his honor, but Isabella, the woman who made his expedition possible, was scarcely mentioned.

When New York City was arranging for the celebration last fall, our City League wished to do honor to the queen by some decorations at the stand we occupied. We tried in vain to find a picture of her. The city was filled with so-called portraits of Columbus. He was depicted in every possible way, old and young, bearded and close-shaved, smiling with an amiable fatuity of expression, or frowning as if he hated all worlds, both old and new. But nowhere could we find a likeness of Isabella at any price. High and low through the city and up and down the land, we searched in vain. A lithograph of Columbus could be pu

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