author
Ida Husted Harper
1851–1931
A sharp journalist and determined suffragist, she helped preserve the story of the American women’s rights movement while writing for popular audiences. She is especially remembered for her work on Susan B. Anthony’s biography and for documenting the long fight for woman suffrage.
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 a career as a journalist, author, and columnist at a time when few women had that kind of public voice. Her writing reached general readers, but she also became deeply involved in the campaign for women’s rights.
She worked closely with Susan B. Anthony and, at Anthony’s request, wrote a major biography of her life. Harper also played an important part in recording the history of the suffrage movement, including work on the later volumes of History of Woman Suffrage. That combination of reporting, organizing, and historical writing made her one of the key chroniclers of the movement.
Harper died in 1931, more than a decade after the Nineteenth Amendment became law in 1920. Today she is remembered not only as an activist, but as someone who helped make sure the story of the struggle for women’s voting rights would not be forgotten.