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Ida Husted Harper
1851–1931
A sharp journalist and determined suffragist, she helped preserve the story of the women’s voting-rights movement while pushing it forward in her own time. Her writing linked everyday newspaper readers to some of the biggest battles for equality in American history.
3 Audiobooks
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years
by Ida Husted Harper
The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years
by Ida Husted Harper
Suffrage snapshots
by Ida Husted Harper
About the author
Born in Indiana in 1851, Ida Husted Harper built her career as a writer, editor, and columnist before becoming one of the most important chroniclers of the woman suffrage movement. She worked in journalism in the Midwest and became known for clear, persuasive writing about public life and women’s issues.
Harper became a close collaborator of Susan B. Anthony and wrote the major biography The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony. She also helped produce the monumental History of Woman Suffrage, completing later volumes that documented the long campaign for voting rights in the United States.
She died in 1931, more than a decade after the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920. Today, she is remembered not only as an activist, but also as a writer who made sure the history of the suffrage movement would not be forgotten.