The Trial of Susan B. Anthony
This month is the 152nd anniversary of the trial of Susan B. Anthony for voting in the Presidential Election of 1872. Several women suffragists showed up at various polls around the U.S. to vote on Election Day, November 5, 1872. One of them was Abigail Scott Duniway in Oregon. A more famous suffragist who voted […]
The New Northwest: A Platform Advocating for Women’s Suffrage
As readers of this blog know, I have included Abigail Scott Duniway, a historical Oregon pioneer, as a character in my last two novels, and I intend to include her in my next novel. She moved to Portland, Oregon, in 1871, in order to start a newspaper, The New Northwest, which she published until 1887. […]
Etymology in Historical Fiction: Suffragists v. Suffragettes
My first exposure to the term “suffragette” was in the song “Sister Suffragette” in the Mary Poppins movie, which I saw when I was eight or nine. I can still see Glynis Johns strutting through her front hall as she sang “Cast off the shackles of yesterday!Shoulder to shoulder into the fray!Our daughters’ daughters will […]
Abigail Scott Dunaway: First Suffragette in Oregon
In recognition of Women’s History Month, this post is about the beginning of the women’s suffrage movement in Oregon, with a focus on Abigail Scott Dunaway, known as Oregon’s “Mother of Equal Suffrage.” I came across Abigail Dunaway in researching prominent women in early Oregon. Abigail was born in Illinois in October 1834 and traveled […]