Addie Worth Bagley Daniels

Born in 1869, Adelaide Worth Bagley Daniels was an American writer, suffragist, and civic figure whose life connected politics, culture, and reform. She was the daughter of John J. Bagley, a governor of Michigan, and later became prominent in public life in North Carolina through her marriage to newspaper editor and public official Josephus Daniels.

Daniels was active in the movement for women's political participation and was appointed in 1920 as the United States delegate to the International Congress of Women in Christiania, Norway. Alongside her public work, she also wrote, and her surviving published work includes Remarks from a Visit to Edison Laboratory, a short piece now preserved by Project Gutenberg.

She died in 1943, but her story remains interesting because it sits at the crossroads of literature, social change, and early twentieth-century public life. For listeners who enjoy authors whose writing grows out of lived experience, travel, and reform-minded curiosity, she offers a vivid glimpse of her era.