A history of the national woman's rights movement, for twenty years, with the proceedings of the decade meeting held at Apollo hall, October 20, 1870, ... of the movement during the winter of 1871, in
(A history of the national woman's rights movement, for tw...)
A history of the national woman's rights movement, for twenty years, with the proceedings of the decade meeting held at Apollo hall, October 20, 1870, from 1850 to 1870, with an appendix containing the history of the movement during the winter of 1871, in
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis was an American woman-suffragist. She undoubtedly was sure that medical and political professions to be open to women.
Background
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis was born on August 7, 1813 in Bloomfield, New York, United States. She was the daughter of Captain Ebenezer and Polly (Saxton) Kellogg. Both parents were very conservative in their views and their associates. Her aunt was an unyielding Puritan and the child was under constant restraint, which probably accounts for her later advocacy of freedom and personal rights.
Education
When Paulina was seven years old she was left an orphan and was subsequently adopted by an aunt in Le Roy, New York, where she received her education. Religion was part of her daily routine, and upon leaving school she decided to become a missionary to the Sandwich Islands. This idea was abandoned in 1833 when she married.
Career
Together with her first husband, Davis took an active part in the anti-slavery convention held in Utica in 1835. Mrs. Wright had spent much of her leisure time in studying anatomy and physiology, and in 1844 she began lecturing on the subject to groups of women. She imported from Paris the first known femme modele in this country. Its use in her lectures brought much unfavorable comment. She contributed many articles to the Woman’s Advocate and McDowell’s Journal.
When her second husband was elected to Congress in 1853, she went with him to Washington. There she was badly received by the women, who considered her knowledge and work unbecoming to her sex.
In February 1853, she established the Una, the first distinctively woman’s rights paper published in this country, which she continued for nearly three years at her own expense. The paper expressed the broadest view of individual freedom.
In 1859 she visited Europe and spent a year in travel, giving her leisure time to picture galleries and the study of art.
On her return she continued her activities in behalf of woman suffrage. She took charge of the arrangements for the meeting of the National Woman Suffrage Movement held in New York in 1870. At the opening session she gave a report of the history and progress of the movement during the preceding twenty years (published as A History of the National Woman’s Rights Movement, 1871). In 1871, with her niece and an adopted daughter, she visited Europe, where she took up seriously the study of art, under the direction of Carl Marko, of Florence, Italy. In 1874 her health failed and she returned to the United States.
Most of her remaining time was spent as an invalid at her home in Providence, Rhode Island, where she died in 1876.
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Connections
In 1833 Davis married Francis Wright, a merchant of wealth and position in Utica, New York. Mr. Wright died during 1835. In 1849 she married Thomas Davis of Providence, Rhode Island.