remarkable women from the past
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Remarkable women: Female moral reform in Addison County in the 1830s and ’40s
Of the various reform causes that Addison County women supported in the first half of the nineteenth century, there was one that became almost solely a women’s cause.…
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Remarkable women from the past: Deborah Pickman Clifford
Deborah Clifford had a passionate interest in 19th Century American history and, soon after she and her family moved to Cornwall in 1966, she began graduate study of…
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Remarkable women from the past: Anna Jessica Stewart Sylvester Swift
Jessica Stewart was born a child of privilege in Middlebury and used that privilege to greatly enrich her home community. In her long life she brought together some…
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Remarkable women from the past: Abby Maria Hemenway
Like other remarkable women in Addison County, Abby Hemenway rebelled against the prevailing, centuries-old, androcentric perceptions of her gender. She was a teacher, poet, author, historian and publisher,…
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Remarkable women from the past: Emma Hart Willard
Emma Hart Willard founded schools for women, published literary and instructive books, and established herself as one of the great champions for women’s equality. Although she left Middlebury…
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Remarkable women from the past: Charity Bryant & Sylvia Drake
Charity Bryant (1777-1851) and Sylvia Drake (1784-1868) Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake met as young women in February 1807 in Weybridge. They spent the next 44 years in…
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Remarkable women from the past: Sally Kellogg Markham
Some women drive change, others survive it. Moving with her family from Connecticut to Addison in 1770 at the age of 3, Sally Kellogg was part of the…
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Sheldon celebrates remarkable local women through history
MIDDLEBURY — In honor of the 100th anniversary of the passage of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote, the Henry Sheldon Museum’s Stewart-Swift Research Center…