Margaret Hope Bacon

Background

Bacon, Margaret Hope was born on April 7, 1921 in New York City. Daughter of Norman Disraeli and Myrtle Hope Borchardt.

Education

Bachelor, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 1943. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Swarthmore College, 1981.

Career

She is primarily known for her biographies and works involving Quaker women's history and the abolitionist movement. Her most famous book is her biography of Lucretia Mott, Valiant Friend, published in 1980. Mistress Bacon spent her early childhood in New York City and moved to Florida as an adolescent.

Mistress

Bacon authored biographies of both Mott and Purvis. A long time trustee and Vice President of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, she wrote a feature article titled "The Pennsylvania Abolition Society"s Mission for Black Education" for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania"s November 2005 newsletter. Bacon died at her home at Crosslands in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania on February 24, 2011.

Achievements

• Margaret Hope Bacon has been listed as a notable freelance/self-employed writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Abby Hopper Gibbons: Prison Reformer and Social Activist (Suny Series in Women, Crime, and Criminology)

    (This first contemporary biography of nineteenth-century A...)

  • Abby Hopper Gibbons: Prison Reformer and Social Activist (Suny Series in Women, Crime, and Criminology) (Hardback) - Common

    (This biography of 19th-century American social activist a...)

  • The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America

    (Paperback: 249 pages Publisher: Pendle Hill Publications...)

  • Rebellion at Christiana

    (Relates the causes, events, and aftermath of the brief ba...)

  • I Speak for My Slave Sister: The Life of Abby Kelley Foster (Women of America)

    (A biography of Abby Kelley Foster, pacifist, abolitionist...)

  • Valiant Friend : The Life of Lucretia Mott

    (The compelling story of Lucretia Mott, whose life of cons...)

  • Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott

    (The compelling story of Lucretia Mott, whose life of cons...)

  • Love Is the Hardest Lesson

    (1999 Pendle House Trade Paperback, This exact ISBN, NOT a...)

  • But One Race: The Life of Robert Purvis (Excelsior Editions)

    (Biography of famous black abolitionist and voting rights ...)

  • Mothers of Feminism : The Story of Quaker Women in America

    (Book by Bacon, Margaret Hope, Bacon, Margaret H.)

  • The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America

    (Book by Bacon, Margaret Hope)

  • Let This Life Speak: The Legacy of Henry Joel Cadbury

    (Book by Bacon, Margaret Hope)

  • THE QUIET REBELS The Story of the Quakers in America

    (Date not stated)

  • The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America

    (hardcover)

  • I speak for my slave sister: the life of Abby Kelley Foster.
  • Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America
  • Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott Hardcover - May, 1980
  • Mothers of Feminism : The Story of Quaker Women in America by Margaret Hope Bacon (1997-06-03)
  • Abby Hopper Gibbons: Prison Reformer and Social Activist (Suny Series in Women, Crime, and Criminology) by Margaret Hope Bacon (2000-03-03)
  • Quiet Rebels: Story of the Quakers in America (Culture & Discovery)
  • But One Race: The Life of Robert Purvis by Margaret Hope Bacon (2007-01-18)
  • Mothers of Feminism: The Story of Quaker Women in America Hardcover - August, 1986
  • The Quiet Rebels: The Story of the Quakers in America by Margaret Hope Bacon (1999-01-03)
  • Abby Hopper Gibbons: Prison Reformer and Social Activist (Suny Series in Women, Crime, and Criminology) by Bacon, Margaret Hope (2000) Paperback

Membership

Founder, board directors Women's Way, Philadelphia, 1975-1982. Vice president Pennsylvania Abolition Society, since 1975. Member history committee Mayor's Commission Women, Philadelphia, 1978-1982.

Member Friends History Association (president 1989-1992), Library. Associates Swarthmore College.

Interests

• Birding, tennis, hiking, skiing, travel.

Connections

Married S. Allen Bacon. Children: Margaret Scattergood, Elizabeth Hope Caesar, Peter Farquhar.

Father:

Norman Disraeli

Mother:

Myrtle Hope Borchardt

Spouse:

S. Allen Bacon

child:

Peter Farquhar Bacon

child:

Margaret Scattergood Bacon

child:

Elizabeth Hope Caesar Bacon