women's suffrage started in america nationally in 1920.
women's suffrage started in america nationally in 1920.
when did women's suffrage start in america?
nationally in 1920
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moore was involved in the american suffrage movement starting in her university years at bryn mawr, from 1905-1909. during this time in the american suffrage movement, anna howard shaw had just taken over as president of the national american woman suffrage association, harriot stanton blatch formed the equality league of self supporting women, which started the practice of suffrage parades, and soon in 1910 women in washington state were granted the right to vote. moore’s combined major in history, politics, and economics and the suffrage involvement of professors and other students at bryn mawr exposed her to the women’s suffrage movement especially because it was a “unique period in the history of women’s college, as the values of progressivism, women’s education, and the ideology of separate spheres came together in a kind of perfect storm that created a climate for cultural change.” moore was involved in a “suffrage society”, a chapter of the national college equal suffrage league, and she was present at most of their events. notably, moore wrote in her personal letters to her family that she attended lectures at bryn mawr from well-known feminist jane addams, and british suffragette anne cobden-sanderson. of american suffragist anna howard shaw, she wrote that: “miss shaw spoke last night on the modern democratic ideal. i couldn’t say how she delighted me. no decent, half-kind, creature could possibly think of fighting suffrage if he or it had heard her arguments.” moore went on a trip to new york city in 1909 with another bryn mawr student, where she heard a lecture from colorado suffragist judge ben lindsey, went to a suffrage mass meeting, and saw j. m. barrie’s classic suffragist themed play "what every woman knows." there is speculation that moore also participated in the women’s suffrage parade of 1913 in washington d.c., one day before woodrow wilson’s presidential inauguration. although in her personal letters she told her brother, warner, she did not participate in the parade after he cautioned her about the possible dangers she would face from the opponents of the parade, “[h]er scrapbook includes programs and newspaper clippings about the march,” and she later told poet elizabeth bishop that she ‘paraded with the suffragettes, led by inez milholland on her white horse.’ moore was never as public about her involvement in the suffrage movement after that parade in 1913, because after this she began participating anonymously, mostly through writing, using a pseudonym. during her stay in carlisle, pennsylvania, she admitted years later, she “wrote suffrage pieces for the carlisle newspaper” which at the time appeared to be authored anonymously. dr. mary chapman (university of british columbia) argues that moore’s was the writer of suffragist writings of the time in carlisle news publications and that could be analyzed by examining her specific writing style alongside suffragist prose and poetry that were published in the "carlisle evening herald" in 1915: “many of the prosuffrage articles that appeared in the "herald"exhibit moore’s characteristic reliance on quotation.” additionally, a letter appealing for the women’s suffrage movement in the "carlisle evening sentinel" is signed miss m.m., which scholars believe could stand for marianne moore because “the absence of any other documented unmarried female suffragists in the carlisle area with the initials m.m. make it likely that the "sentinel" reader who coyly constructs a letter to the editor almost entirely from quotation is marianne moore.” moore’s poem “silence” (1924) also resembles the writing style that was seen in the "sentinel" letter. moore established herself on the surface as a modernist poet, and the common practice within the modernist circle of poets was to not engage with the politics of the time but her writings displayed a “sophisticated political subtext.”
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