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Ellis Meredith
b. 1865
A sharp-eyed journalist and novelist, she helped turn Colorado’s woman suffrage campaign into a winning popular vote and became one of the state’s best-known advocates for women in public life.
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The Master-Knot of Human Fate
by Ellis Meredith
About the author
Born in Montana Territory in 1865, Ellis Meredith grew up in a family active in journalism and reform and later moved to Denver. She built her career at the Rocky Mountain News, where her column A Woman’s World mixed cultural commentary with arguments for women’s rights.
Meredith is best remembered as a leading voice in the campaign for woman suffrage in Colorado. She wrote, organized, and spoke tirelessly for the cause, and later became known as the "Susan B. Anthony of Colorado." Alongside her political work, she also wrote fiction and nonfiction, bringing a reporter’s clarity and energy to everything she published.
Her career stretched well beyond one campaign. She covered politics, served in public roles connected to federal service and reform, and remained an influential western writer for decades, leaving behind a legacy that links literature, journalism, and activism.