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Works by Laura Curtis Bullard

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Birthdate
1831
Date of death
1912
Gender
female
Nationality
USA
Birthplace
Freedom, Maine, USA
Places of residence
Bangor, Maine, USA
New York, New York, USA
Occupations
women's rights activist
publisher
editor
novelist
translator
essayist
Relationships
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady (colleague)
Organizations
National Woman Suffrage Association
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Short biography
Laura Curtis Bullard was born in Freedom, Maine. Her father Jeremiah Curtis was an abolitionist who became a wealthy businessman. In the early 1850s, he moved his family and his patent medicine business to New York City. At age 23, Laura anonymously published a novel called Now-a-days! and two years later published the radical women's rights novel Christine: or, Woman's Trials and Triumphs, under her own name. She then founded and edited a monthly newspaper called The Ladies' Visitor, and Drawing Room Companion. In 1859, she married Enoch Bullard, an executive in the family business who later became its president. At the founding meeting in 1869 of the National Woman Suffrage Association, led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, she became the group's corresponding secretary. She wrote articles for The Revolution, the weekly women's rights newspaper, and succeeded Miss Anthony as its editor in 1870. That same year, she co-founded the Brooklyn Women's Club along with her friend Elizabeth Tilton, poetry editor of The Revolution. In December 1870, she went to Europe with her son and her parents, but tried to continue editing The Revolution from abroad; she resigned after 18 months and the paper closed soon afterwards. She devoted much of the latter part of her life to encouraging writers and social reformers in both the USA and Europe.

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