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Conference paper
Faded but not Forgotten: Female Friendships during the Women's Suffrage and Abolitionist Movements
04 Sep 2025
Abstract
The 19th century in the United States was a period of political upheaval and cultural tension. Not only were the movements for woman's suffrage and the abolition of slavery gaining momentum, but women in the Mid-Atlantic were fighting for their right to an equal education. Important insight into some of the women who were fighting for all three is present within the Women in Medicine and the History of Homeopathy collection in the Legacy Center Archives at Drexel University. There are subcollections that pay tribute to the formation of the first women's medical college in the United States, the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania. These collections are home to photographs, essays, lectures, founding documents and more that record the lives of the women, and men, who made history by establishing the WMCP. However, also within these collections is a subcollection entitled " In Her Own Rights – Women asserting their civil rights, 1820-1920 ". This collection houses a series of letters between women at the WMCP who were participating in the women's suffrage and abolitionist movements. These letters provide insight into the inner workings of these movements but also into the friendships between the women who were striving to make history.
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- Title
- Faded but not Forgotten: Female Friendships during the Women's Suffrage and Abolitionist Movements
- Creators
- Hannah Purtymun - Drexel University, DUL Connections
- Conference
- Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2025 (Online, 03 Sep 2025–04 Sep 2025)
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- DUL Connections
- Other Identifier
- 991022170442304721