Lucy Stone - Boston, MA
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Women's rights activist Lucy Stone is one of three women honored at the Boston Women's Memorial on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall between Gloucester St. and Fairfield St. in the Back Bay of Boston.
Waymark Code: WMKYV6
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 06/17/2014
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Lucy Stone was born in West Brookfield, MA. She attended Oberlin College was the first women from Massachusetts to obtain a college degree and retain her own name after marrying Henry B. Blackwell. She worked as a lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society. After the Civil War she became a strong advocate for women's suffrage and formed the Women's Suffrage Association of Boston. She founded and edited the Women's Journal, a weekly feminist magazine.
A 63" x 65" x 42", bronze, ground level statue of Lucy Stone by Meredith Gang Bergmann is part of the Boston Women's Memorial that was installed on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall in 2003. Lucy Stone is sitting on a granite block with her legs resting on a smaller and lower granite bench. She is wearing a long dress and jewelry on are left wrist and neck. She is leaning over as if writing on the granite block she is sitting on.
The inscription on top of the granite block:
Let woman's sphere be bounded
only by her capacity.
Speech, Woman's Rights Convention, Worcester.
The back of the granite block is inscribed:
Lucy Stone
1818 - 1893
Born in Brookfield, she was one of the
first Massachusetts women to graduate from
college. She was an ardent abolitionist.
A renowned orator, and the founder of
The Woman's Journal, the foremost
women's suffrage publications of its era.
The front of the granite block is inscribed:
The legal right for woman
to record her opinion
wherever opinions count
is the tool of whose
ownership we ask.
Woman's Journal
From the first years to which my memory stretches,
I have been a disappointed woman. In education, in marriage
in religion, in everything disappointment is the lot of women.
It shall be the business of my life to deepen this disappointment
in every woman's heart until she bows down to it no longer.
Speech National Woman's Rights Convention Cincinnati 1855
I believe the world grows better because I believe
that in the eternal order there is always a movement
swift or slow towards what is right and true.
Last published statement The Independent 1893