Fanny Garrison Villard
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. She was the daughter of prominent publisher and abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United...
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Early years
Helen Frances Garrison, known to family and friends as "Fanny," was born December 16, 1844, the only daughter of abolitionist William Lloyd GarrisonWilliam Lloyd Garrison
William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer. He is best known as the editor of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, and as one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society, he promoted "immediate emancipation" of slaves in the United...
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Garrison married publisher and railroad tycoon Henry Villard
Henry Villard
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. While raising her children, she led a life fairly typical life of a woman in a traditional upper-class marriage.
Activism
After her children were grown and her husband died in 1900, Fanny Garrison Villard became more active in peace groups and women's rights. She joined the American Woman Suffrage Association, and marched against the First World War in New YorkNew York
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in 1914.
Death and legacy
Fanny Garrison Villard died on July 5, 1928.Her son, Oswald Villard, was a prominent pacifist and civil rights activist and longtime editor of The Nation
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magazine.
Further reading
- Marie Louise Degen, The History of the Woman's Peace Party. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1939.
- Oswald Garrison Villard, Fighting Years: An Autobiography. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1939.