author
Ida Husted Harper
1851–1931
A journalist turned leading voice of the suffrage movement, she helped preserve the story of women’s fight for the vote. Her books, especially on Susan B. Anthony and the history of woman suffrage, made her one of the movement’s most important chroniclers.
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 worked first as a teacher and then built a career in journalism. Writing for newspapers gave her a practical, persuasive style that later became central to her work as a public advocate and historian.
She became closely involved in the woman suffrage movement in the late nineteenth century and worked with Susan B. Anthony, who asked her to write a full biography of her life and work. Harper went on to help document the wider movement as well, contributing to and completing later volumes of History of Woman Suffrage.
Today, she is remembered not only as a suffragist but as one of the people who made sure the movement left a written record behind. For listeners interested in reform, politics, and American history, her work offers both firsthand insight and a strong sense of purpose.