Eliza Farnham
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Genre | non-fiction |
Notable works | Woman and Her Era (1864) |
Eliza Farnham (November 17, 1815 – December 15, 1864) was a 19th-century American novelist,
Biography
She was born in
In 1849 she travelled to California with her two sons, having inherited property there,[5] and remained there until 1856, when she returned to New York. For the two years following, she devoted herself to the study of medicine, and in 1859 organized a society to assist destitute women in finding homes in the west, taking charge in person of several companies of this class of emigrants. She subsequently returned to California.[1]
She died from consumption in New York City at the age of 49.[6] She was an atheist.[7]
Publications
- Life in the Prairie Land, 1846 - An account of life on the Illinois prairie near Pekin between 1836 and 1840.
- California, In-doors and Out, 1856 - A chronicle of her experiences and observations on California.
- My Early Days, 1859 - An autobiographical novel.
- Woman and Her Era, 1864 - "Organic, religious, esthetic, and historical" arguments for woman's inherent superiority.
- The Ideal Attained: being the story of two steadfast souls, and how they won their happiness and lost it not, 1865[8]
Remembrance
The first volume of History of Woman Suffrage, published in 1881, states, "THESE VOLUMES ARE AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED TO THE Memory of Mary Wollstonecraft, Frances Wright, Lucretia Mott, Harriet Martineau, Lydia Maria Child, Margaret Fuller, Sarah and Angelina Grimké, Josephine S. Griffing, Martha C. Wright, Harriot K. Hunt, M.D., Mariana W. Johnson, Alice and Phebe Carey, Ann Preston, M.D., Lydia Mott, Eliza W. Farnham, Lydia F. Fowler, M.D., Paulina Wright Davis, Whose Earnest Lives and Fearless Words, in Demanding Political Rights for Women, have been, in the Preparation of these Pages, a Constant Inspiration TO The Editors".[9]
See also
References
- ^ a b c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
- ISBN 9783789601477.
- S2CID 145528628.
- ^ Vogel, Brenda. (2009) The Prison Library Primer. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
- ISBN 978-1-4798-8283-0. Retrieved 2021-05-16.
- ISBN 9780674627345.
- ^ Knepper, Paul. Writing the History of Crime. London: Bloomsbury Academic, an Imprint of Bloomsbury Plc, 2016. Print. "...like Eliza Farnham: atheist, phrenologist..."
- ^ ABE Books website: Eliza Farnham, The ideal attained: being the story of two steadfast souls, and how they won their happiness and lost it not
- ^ "History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I". Project Gutenberg.
Further reading
- Atwater, Edward C (2016). Women Medical Doctors in the United States before the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press. OCLC 945359277.
- Bakken, G., & Farrington, B. (2003). Encyclopedia of Women in the American West, p. 124. Thousand Oaks: Sage. Link to Google Book Search excerpt
- Levy, Joann. Unsettling the West: Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby in Frontier California. Santa Clara University: California Legacy Series, 2004.
- Stern, Madeleine (1971). Heads and Headlines: The Phrenological Fowlers. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman.
External links
- Quotations related to Eliza Farnham at Wikiquote