author
Ellis Meredith
b. 1865
A pioneering Colorado journalist and novelist, she helped turn the fight for woman suffrage into a winning political campaign. Her life joined sharp reporting, reform work, and fiction in a way that still feels remarkably modern.
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The Master-Knot of Human Fate
by Ellis Meredith
About the author
Born in 1865 in Montana Territory, Ellis Meredith became one of the best-known voices for women’s rights in Colorado. She worked as a journalist for the Rocky Mountain News and earned a reputation for clear, persuasive writing at a time when few women had that kind of public platform.
Meredith played an important role in the successful 1893 Colorado campaign for woman suffrage and was later known as the "Susan B. Anthony of Colorado." Alongside her political work, she also wrote novels, including Heart of My Heart and What Difference Did It Make?, bringing the concerns of women’s lives and public life into her fiction.
She remained active in reform and public affairs for decades, building a career that crossed journalism, activism, and literature. For listeners interested in writers who were also changemakers, her story offers a vivid glimpse of the American West and the long campaign for women’s political voice.