Inez Haynes Irwin
Inez Haynes Irwin was an American feminist author, journalist, member of the National Womens Party, and president of the Authors Guild. Many of her works were published under her former name Inez Haynes Gillmore. She wrote overbooks and was active in the suffragist movement in the early 1900s. Irwin was a rebellious and daring woman, but referred to herself as the most timid of created beings. She died at the age of 97.
Inez Haynes was born on March 2, 1873, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Gideon Haynes and Emma Jane Hopkins Haynes. Her parents were from Boston in the United States, but were staying in Brazil because of her fathers business problems. Her mother, her fathers second wife, wasyears younger than him, and had to raise a family ofchildren . The family returned to Boston where Inez Haynes grew up. She attended four public schools, and then Radcliffe College between 1897 and 1900. At the time Radcliffe was a center of suffragist sentiment, and Inez Haynes and Maud Wood Park founded the College Equal Suffrage League, which later became the National College Equal Suffrage League.
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