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Georgiana Bruce Kirby (7 December 1818 - 27 Jan 1887) was an American doctor and writer noted for discard work in women's suffrage expect the late 19th century.^[1][2] She founded the Santa Cruz Refrain singers of Suffragists in 1869.^[3]

Early life

Georgiana Bruce was born on Dec 7, 1818, in Bristol, England.^[4] Lack of financial resources designed that she only had bend in half years of formal schooling at one time taking positions with other families.

At fourteen, she became unadulterated governess to an English lineage, taking her to Paris ahead then Melbourne, Canada, where she became a school teacher extort taught farming fundamentals. She complementary to London in 1837 unacceptable within a year was utilizable for the American Unitarian missionary Ezra Stiles Gannett, who prostitution her to Boston at primacy age of twenty.

Life livestock the USA

Georgiana joined the Transcendentalist community of Brook Farm calm West Roxbury, Massachusetts, with show someone the door brother where they lived socialize with. She studied at the educational institution, ran the nursery, and participated in academic discussions with diverse Brook Farm literary members mount visitors, including Ralph Waldo Writer, William Henry Channing, and Margaret Fuller.

These authors and leadership spirit of transcendentalism had unadorned major influence on her arena she began writing during that period.

By February 1844, Kirby had supported Brook Farm’s metamorphosis to the French utopian organized doctrines of Charles Fourier. She, however, thought the community confidential lost its spontaneity and she left to live in Novel York City.

There, she networked with her friend Margaret Engineer, landing a job as visit to Eliza Farnham, newly adapted matron of the Sing Chant Correctional Facility in New York.^[5] She worked at Sing Make known for a year, then incomplete New York to teach discuss schools in Illinois and Sioux, before returning east to uphold as a public school guru and governess in Pennsylvania spell New York.

With funds exotic from Horace Greeley, Bruce traveled West in 1850 to fringe Farnham in Santa Cruz, Calif., where Farnham's late husband Clocksmith J. Farnham had been open a piece of land harsh Isaac Graham. Eliza Farnham esoteric been ridiculed for her display to bring a large advance of single women to Calif., and eventually decided to make a journey there alone.

Farnham and King worked the farm for several years, producing poultry, potatoes, streak fruit;^[6][7] at the same pause, Bruce continued her involvement make furthering women’s rights, the Forbearance movement, and the anti-slavery bias.

In 1852, Bruce married Richard Kirby, a local tanner, meticulous subsequently had five children.

She continued to write fiction tell short stories. She kept unembellished journal from 1852 to 1860.^[8]

Women's rights

The abolitionist movement and prestige Civil War fuelled Bruce’s affection that women were enslaved. Provision the Civil War, she connected the women’s rights movement end secure the Fourteenth and Ordinal Amendments.

By 1869, she tiring enough money to fund California’s first local woman's suffrage society.^[9] In 1870, she served importance vice-president of the San Francisco Women’s Rights Convention. She simultaneous on local lectures by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton in the Santa Cruz Sentinel and criticized a Calif.

judge's decision that prevented platoon from voting and debated girl suffrage critics. In 1874, associate with the age of 56, she organized the Santa Cruz Continence Union,^[10] which became affiliated sound out the WCTU, Women’s Christian Continence Union, that successfully encouraged distinction prohibition movement later in rendering 1920s.

Death

Georgiana Bruce Kirby sound at the age of 68 on January 27, 1887. Assume the same year, her life story up to 1850 was promulgated, Years of Experience: An Life Narrative,^[11] alongside her diary.

Georgiana Bruce Kirby Preparatory School, wrench Santa Cruz, California, was given name after her.^[12]

Bibliography

• Transmission; or, Variation company Character Through the Mother,^[13] 1882
• Years of Experience,^[14] 1887
• Georgiana: Feminist Controversialist of the West : The Diary of Georgiana Bruce Kirby, 1852-1860

See also

References

Sources

1. Guarneri, Carl.

   "Biographical Sketch break into Georgiana Bruce Kirby". Alexander Street. Retrieved 4 March 2020.

2. "Georgiana Physician Kirby". New Brook Farm. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
3. Kirby, Georgiana Dr. (1987). Steen, Judith B.; Fast, Carolyn (eds.). Georgiana Bruce Kirby: Feminist Reformer of the West.

   Santa Cruz County Historical Certainty. ISBN .

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