Hannah Johnston Bailey papers.

Hannah Johnston Bailey was a Quaker pacifist, suffragist, reformer and temperance leader - she was the superintendent of the Department of Peace and Arbitration of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union from 1887-1916, president and superintendent of the Woman's Temperance Publishing Associ...

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Uniform Title:Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
Main Author: Bailey, Hannah J. (Hannah Johnston), 1839-1923 (Author)
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1858-1923.
Series:Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (20 manuscripts) : illustrations.
Format: Electronic
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Hannah Johnston Bailey was a Quaker pacifist, suffragist, reformer and temperance leader - she was the superintendent of the Department of Peace and Arbitration of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union from 1887-1916, president and superintendent of the Woman's Temperance Publishing Association and an officer in the Universal Peace union. She was an active participant in the suffrage movement and was also interested in the influence of militarism on children, the reform of women's prisons, the abolition of capital punishment and women's missionary work. The collection includes personal papers, correspondence, diaries and journals, published and unpublished articles, biographical information, and memorabilia, alongside material on Bailey's work with the National and World Woman's Temperance Union, the National Council of Women, and the financial and legal papers of the Woman's Temperance Publication Association. Correspondents and others in this collection include Cora Slocomb di Brazza- Savorgna (Countess di Brazza), Alice May Douglas, Anna Gordon, Lucia Ames Mead, Anne Duryea Sturges, and Frances Willard.
Note:Date range: 1858-1923.
Reproduction of the originals from the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, PA.