Elizabeth Bunnell Read | |
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_(cropped_2024).jpg) Portrait photo from A Woman of the Century | |
| Born | Elizabeth Currence Bunnell December 24, 1834 DeWitt, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 22, 1909 (aged 74) Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Resting place | Riverview Cemetery, Algona, Iowa |
| Other names | Lizzie B. Read |
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| Known for | President, Iowa Woman's Suffrage Society |
| Notable work | The Mayflower, the only suffrage paper published during the American Civil War |
| Spouse |
Samuel George Alexander Read
(m. 1863; died 1893) |
Elizabeth Bunnell Read (pen name, Lizzie B. Read; 1832–1909) was an American journalist and woman suffragist.[1] Between 1861 and 1865, in Indiana, Read published The Mayflower, the only suffrage paper published during the American Civil War.[2] She served as President of the Iowa Woman's Suffrage Society.
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "READ, Mrs. Elizabeth C. Bunnell". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 600–01. Retrieved 23 March 2024 – via Wikisource.
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- ^ American journalism. Conway, AR: American Journalism Historians Association. 1983. p. 2. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
