Short Name: | Harriet Winslow Sewall |
Full Name: | Sewall, Harriet Winslow, 1819-1889 |
Birth Year: | 1819 |
Death Year: | 1889 |
Sewell, Harriet Winslow; born June 30, 1819 in Portland, Mane; daughter of Nathan Winslow and Comfort Hussey; married Charles List in 1848; married Samuel Sewall in 1856; became interested in abolitionism and transcendentalism in the 1840s; active in philanthropic work, women’s suffrage movement, and educational work; a founder of the New England Women’s Club; edited letters of her friend, Lydia Maria Child in 1833; wrote poetry which was collected and published by Ednah D. Cheyney in 1889; died April 19, 1889 in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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