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Caroline M. Severance: Feminist and Reformer, 1820-1914: thesis

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Description: The thesis covers the entire life of Caroline M. Severance, from her birth in Canandaigua, New York in 1820, to her death in Los Angeles, California in 1914, at the age of ninety-four. Stanley includes details regarding Severance's activities in several reform movements including temperance, the Unitarian Church, women's clubs, and women's suffrage. The thesis also includes a bibliography.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1978, March 24.
Call number: mssHM 63882
Creator: Stanley, Sara Marie(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Al Stanley, June 1983.

Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914. Article on Women Reformers

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There are 631 manuscripts, 525 of which are by Caroline Severance. These include speeches, poetry, essays, articles, notebooks, commonplace books, miscellaneous notes, and a 347-page unpublished autobiography by Caroline Severance entitled "Own Story." The majority of the 10,634 pieces of correspondence is made up of family letters; only 232 letters are written by Caroline Severance. The rest of the correspondence is made up of letters written to Caroline Severance by over 1,700 different authors. The collection contains 9,007 pieces of ephemera, which is made up of address books, appointment books, brochures, business papers, greeting cards, legal documents, newspaper clippings, postcards, fliers, brochures, programs, notebooks, photographs, and financial papers of the family. The manuscripts, correspondence, and ephemera cover the following subjects: African American women suffrage and clubs, Susan B. Anthony, Jessie Benton Frémont, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Julia Ward Howe, child labor reform, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Fröbel and the Kindergarten movement, Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, Helen Modjeska, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, dress reform, suffrage, temperance, Unitarianism, women's rights, women's clubs, and the history, politics and social life of 19th and 20th century Los Angeles, California.

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Caroline M. Severance: Feminist and Reformer, 1820-1914 by Sara Marie Stanley

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The Friday Morning Club records consists of materials created by the Club and its members, dating from the year the club started in 1891 to is closure in 2012. These records document the activities of the club such as: philanthropy and charity work; finances; fundraising; the various work of the club's committees on science, art, and other topics; the construction of their clubhouses in Los Angeles; and the meeting minutes of both regular meetings and the board. The collection is comprised of subject files, financial and business records, membership applications and cards, manuscripts and essays, and clippings (1770-2012); publications printed by the Friday Morning Club, including their monthly newsletter, and publications printed by other clubs (1850-1993); photograph albums, scrapbooks, and meeting minutes (1891-2012); photographs, certificates, awards, and some objects that belonged to the club, including the bronze plaque that hung at the clubhouse (1890-2000). The collection contains material by and about several prominent members and suffragettes, including Susan B. Anthony, Sarah Bixby Smith, Jessie Benton Frémont, Margaret Collier Graham, Olive Percival, Idah Strobridge, Louise Watkins, Charlotte LeMoyne Wills, and the club's founder Caroline Severance. The collection also contains material about other clubs, including the California Federation of Women's Clubs and California Women of the Golden West.

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Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914. Diary

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Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914. "The Beechers:" [reminiscences]

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Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914. Commonplace Book

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Severance, Caroline M. Seymour (Caroline Maria Seymour), 1820-1914. Commonplace Book

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Caroline M. Severance: Feminist and Reformer, 1820-1914: thesis

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