Blake Family Papers, 1872-1958, n.d.
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topic: Lillie Devereux Blake (1833-1913)
subject: Lillie Devereux Blake (1833-1913)
topic: Lists of principal events in her life, n.d.
subject: Lists of principal events in her life, n.d.
topic: Printed material by and about her, 1879-1906, n.d.
subject: Printed material by and about her, 1879-1906, n.d.
topic: Correspondence
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topic: Curtiss, Julia E., 1888
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topic: Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 1898, n.d.
subject: Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 1898, n.d.
topic: Hill, Mrs. Homer M., 1899
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topic: From Lillie to Isabel Howland, 1892-98
subject: From Lillie to Isabel Howland, 1892-98
topic: National Legislative League: public statements, circa 1903, n.d.
subject: National Legislative League: public statements, circa 1903, n.d.
topic: "Articles about Woman's Position and Interesting Items": scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1872-75, n.d.
subject: "Articles about Woman's Position and Interesting Items": scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1872-75, n.d.
topic: Katherine Devereux Blake
subject: Katherine Devereux Blake
topic: Speeches, clippings, and biographical and historical notes, 1915-58, n.d.
subject: Speeches, clippings, and biographical and historical notes, 1915-58, n.d.
topic: Babcock, Caroline Lexow, 1939
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topic: Dewey, John, 1943
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topic: Pollitzer, Anita, 1943
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topic: Shotwell, James T., 1940
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topic: Emanuel Celler, 1944
subject: Emanuel Celler, 1944
topic: Mrs. Wiley, 1944
subject: Mrs. Wiley, 1944
topic: Biographical article on Lillie Devereux Blake in Women's Illustrated World Supplement, circa 1882
subject: Biographical article on Lillie Devereux Blake in Women's Illustrated World Supplement, circa 1882

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provides access to: "Articles about Woman's Position and Interesting Items": scrapbook of newspaper clippings, 1872-75, n.d.
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provides access to: Speeches, clippings, and biographical and historical notes, 1915-58, n.d.
provides access to: Babcock, Caroline Lexow, 1939
provides access to: Dewey, John, 1943
provides access to: Pollitzer, Anita, 1943
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provides access to: Emanuel Celler, 1944
provides access to: Mrs. Wiley, 1944
provides access to: Biographical article on Lillie Devereux Blake in Women's Illustrated World Supplement, circa 1882

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Blake Family Papers, 1872-1958, n.d.
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scopecontent: Scope and Contents of the Collection This small collection of the Blake Family Papers dates from 1872 to 1958 and consists of material relating to Lillie Devereux Blake and her daughter, Katherine Devereux Blake. The papers of Lillie Devereux Blake include a detailed list of the principal events of her life, correspondence, printed material by and about her, writings (speeches, articles, clippings), and a scrapbook. Correspondence includes incoming letters from Matilda Joslyn Gage (circa 1880s) and outgoing letters to Isabel Howland (1892-98). Her writings include public statements regarding the National Legislative League, articles on woman's position and suffrage, and appeals to legislation for the approval of women's suffrage. A scrapbook kept by Lillie Devereux Blake between 1872-75 contains newspaper clippings of articles on woman's position, in addition to miscellaneous and unrelated topics. The papers of Katherine Devereux Blake include a small number of speeches, clippings, autobiographical and historical notes, and correspondence. Notable correspondents include John Dewey, Anita Pollitzer, and James Shotwell.
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body: Biographical Note First page of "The Fables of Lillie Devereux Blake," 1879 Lillie Devereux Blake (1833-1913) was a suffragist, a noted fiction writer, journalist, essayist, lecturer, and women's rights advocate. The daughter of planter George Pollock Devereux and Sarah Elizabeth Johnson, she was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. When her father died in 1837, her mother decided to leave his plantation in Roanoke, Virginia and return with her daughters to her relatives in New Haven, Connecticut. Lillie attended Miss Apthorp's School for Girls in New Haven until age fifteen, after which she studied with a private tutor in the Yale undergraduate curriculum. She married Frank Umsted, a lawyer from Philadelphia, in 1855. The birth of their first daughter, Elizabeth, in 1857 coincided with the publication of her first story in Harper's Weekly. The years 1858-59 were marked by the birth of her second daughter, Katherine, the publication of her first novel, Southwald, and the alleged suicide of her husband. She resisted remarriage. Instead, to support her family she wrote, using pseudonyms, for mass market magazines and was a Washington-based Civil War correspondent for one magazine and two papers. In 1866, she married Grinfill Blake, an employee at a manufacturing firm in New York. She continued to support herself by writing. Among her works are a collection of short stories, a collection of essays, hundreds of uncollected short stories and essays, and five novels. Blake strongly supported equality of education for men and women. In 1876, along with Matilda Joslyn Gage and others, she signed the Centennial Women's Rights Declaration. She was a main contributor to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Woman's Bible (originally published in 1892 and 1895). After 1869 she began touring the United States, speaking on women's rights. Her accomplishments as a woman's rights activist included being the president of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association (1879-1890) and the Civic and Pol…
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Lists of principal events in her life, n.d.
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National Legislative League: public statements, circa 1903, n.d.
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Gage, Matilda Joslyn, 1898, n.d.
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Hill, Mrs. Homer M., 1899
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From Lillie to Isabel Howland, 1892-98
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Speeches, clippings, and biographical and historical notes, 1915-58, n.d.
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Babcock, Caroline Lexow, 1939
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From Katherine to:
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