Background
Peirce, Melusina Fay was born on February 24, 1836 in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Daughter of Charles (Doctor of Divinity) and Emily (Hopkins) Fay (daughter P.E. Bishop John Henry Hopkins).
writer organizer of women's societies
Peirce, Melusina Fay was born on February 24, 1836 in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Daughter of Charles (Doctor of Divinity) and Emily (Hopkins) Fay (daughter P.E. Bishop John Henry Hopkins).
Educated at home and Young Ladies’ School of Professor L. Agassiz, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Pioneer advocate of the Organization of Woman among Themselves. Organized Cambridge Cooperative Housekeeping Association, 1870, Boston Woman’s Education Association, 1871, street cleaning committee of Ladies’ Health Protective Association (New York), 1887-1888, Poe Cottage Preservation Committee, 1895-1896, Fraunces Tavern Restoration Committee of the New York Mary Washington Colonial Chapter Daughters of American Revolution, 1897, Women's Auxiliary to Scenic and Historic Preservation Society, New York, 1900-1901. Reviewer Atlantic Monthly, 1868-1877.
Music critic, Boston Post, 1877-1878, Chicago Evening Journal, 1881-1884.
Author: Cooperative Housekeeping, 1868, 1884. Edited: Music Study in Germany, by Amy Fay (24 edits), 1881-1913.
Patented “Gallery Block,” construction for apartment and tenement houses, 1903. New York, A Symphonic Study, 1918.
Address: 15 Hawthorne Saint, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Married Charles Sanders Peirce, 1862.