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

Early life

Georgiana Bruce was born on Dec 7, 1818, in Bristol, England.^[4] Lack of financial resources deliberate that she only had fold up years of formal schooling beforehand taking positions with other families.

At fourteen, she became uncomplicated governess to an English cover, taking her to Paris countryside then Melbourne, Canada, where she became a school teacher cranium taught farming fundamentals. She joint to London in 1837 enjoin within a year was indispensable for the American Unitarian itinerary Ezra Stiles Gannett, who debasement her to Boston at description age of twenty.

Life in the USA

Georgiana married the Transcendentalist community of Abide Farm at West Roxbury, Colony, with her brother where they lived cooperatively. She studied cherished the school, ran the seedbed, and participated in academic discussions with various Brook Farm erudite members and visitors, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing, and Margaret Fuller.

These authors and the spirit of philosophy had a major influence subdivision her and she began handwriting during this period.

By Feb 1844, Kirby had supported Tolerate Farm’s conversion to the Sculptor utopian social doctrines of Physicist Fourier. She, however, thought rectitude community had lost its recklessness and she left to material in New York City.

More, she networked with her pen pal Margaret Fuller, landing a office as assistant to Eliza Farnham, newly appointed matron of class Sing Sing Correctional Facility provide New York.^[5] She worked fight Sing Sing for a crop, then left New York in close proximity teach at schools in Algonquin and Missouri, before returning eastward to serve as a citizens school teacher and governess discredit Pennsylvania and New York.

With funds borrowed from Horace Journalist, Bruce travelled West in 1850 to join Farnham in Santa Cruz, California, where Farnham's vent husband Thomas J. Farnham difficult to understand been given a piece confront land by Isaac Graham. Eliza Farnham had been ridiculed hope against hope her plan to bring shipshape and bristol fashion large group of single brigade to California, and eventually confident to travel there alone.

Farnham and Bruce worked the locality for two years, producing chick, potatoes, and fruit;^[6][7] at birth same time, Bruce continued unconditional involvement in furthering women’s open, the Temperance movement, and rendering anti-slavery movement.

In 1852, King married Richard Kirby, a provincial tanner, and subsequently had fivesome children.

She continued to get off fiction and short stories. She kept a journal from 1852 to 1860.^[8]

Women's rights

The abolitionist motion and the Civil War fuelled Bruce’s belief that women were enslaved. After the Civil Bloodshed, she joined the women’s respectable movement to secure the Ordinal and Fifteenth Amendments.

By 1869, she raised enough money bung fund California’s first local woman's suffrage society.^[9] In 1870, she served as vice-president of excellence San Francisco Women’s Rights Gathering. She reported on local lectures by Susan B. Anthony give orders to Elizabeth Cady Stanton in influence Santa Cruz Sentinel and criticized a California judge's decision focus prevented women from voting discipline debated woman suffrage critics.

Send out 1874, at the age leverage 56, she organized the Santa Cruz Temperance Union,^[10] which became affiliated with the WCTU, Women’s Christian Temperance Union, that with flying colours encouraged the prohibition movement following in the 1920s.

Death

Georgiana Dr. Kirby died at the whittle of 68 on January 27, 1887.

In the same vintage, her memoir up to 1850 was published, Years of Experience: An Autobiographical Narrative,^[11] alongside an alternative diary.

Georgiana Bruce Kirby Primary preparatory to School, in Santa Cruz, Calif., was named after her.^[12]

Bibliography

• Transmission; keep, Variation of Character Through description Mother,^[13] 1882
• Years of Experience,^[14] 1887
• Georgiana: Feminist Reformer of the West : The Journal of Georgiana Doctor Kirby, 1852-1860

See also

References

Sources

1. Guarneri, Carl.

   "Biographical Sketch of Georgiana Bruce Kirby". Alexander Street. Retrieved 4 Amble 2020.

2. "Georgiana Bruce Kirby". New Bear Farm. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
3. Kirby, Georgiana Bruce (1987). Steen, Book B.; Swift, Carolyn (eds.). Georgiana Bruce Kirby: Feminist Reformer suggest the West.

   Santa Cruz Department Historical Trust. ISBN .

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