STATUE IN NYC | Inez One of Ten NY Times Nominees

Inez Milholland at NY City woman suffrage parade in 1913. She was an accomplished equestrian from her vacations in Lewis, N.Y. Source: Library of Congress
(from Bain News Service).

Inez Milholland's life, "though it lasted only 30 years, was cinematic." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/26/nyregion/women-monuments-new-york-city.html

Summary of her life (with a few additions here to the NY Times bio):

• 1905-09 Campus activist at Vassar College, fighting for suffrage as the President, James Monroe Taylor, tried to silence all discussion as political.
• 1909 Rejected by Harvard and other U.S. law schools, and Oxford, because she was a woman. Harvard law school faculty accepted her but was overruled by the administration. Accepted by NYU.
• 1909 Arrested after demonstrating with striking women shirtwaist workers.
• 1909 Interrupted a campaign parade for President William Howard Taft, in New York, asking what he had done for the right of women to vote.
• 1912 Led woman suffrage parade in New York City. Received NYU Law School degree.
• 1913, March Led huge woman suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. on the eve of Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration. 
• 1913 Wrote a harsh report on prison conditions at Sing Sing for her firm, one of whose partners was Osborne.
• 1913, July Proposed marriage to a Dutch tobacco importer (later coffee importer) on board the Mauretania, and remained committed to free love; they were married secretly in London.
• 1915-16 Went on Ford Peace Ship and got off in Sweden because of patriarchy on the boat. Covered the Great War in Italy as a journalist, before getting thrown out of the country for negative reporting (she was a pacifist).
• 1916 Set out on a long whistle-stop train tour with her sister Vida, rallying support for the Federal Anthony Amendment.
• 1916, October Collapsed in Los Angeles, from exhaustion and anemia. After daily notices in the newspapers nationwide about her status, she died in November.

ANTHONY AND STANTON | Statue Campaign

L to R: Stanton, Anthony, Mott.

March 12, 2018 – Gary Ferdman's birthday is today and he wants you to give money to his campaign to have statues erected in New York City memory of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first of the two to become committed to the Votes for Women cause. Stanton was at the Seneca Falls Convention; Anthony was converted to the cause a couple of years later, although her Rochester-area Quaker family was long committed to the abolitionist movement.

Stanton met Lucretia Mott in London at the 1840 World Anti-Slavery Conference and the were told that women should keep quiet and sit in a special section reserved for non-voting observers. They were outraged, but Lucretia Mott went back to Philadelphia where she was a famed Quaker orator. Stanton had several children in succession and found her life as a mother in Seneca Falls to be difficult.

There is no statue to Stanton or Anthony in New York City. Famously, the statues to women are of ancient Greek or Roman gods, or Mother Goose. Mott, Stanton and Anthony are remembered in a sculpture in the U.S. Capitol building. Edna St Vincent Millay, who married the widower of Inez Milholland, wrote a poem dedicated (in the printed version) to Inez Milholland, which she read out in 1923 at an unveiling of the statue. This is the ending of a play I wrote about Milholland that was read at a fund-raiser in Vienna, Va. in 2017.

Millay and Milholland were both New Yorkers in the sense of New York City dwellers (Milholland was born in Brooklyn and lived there and on Madison Square; Millay became a Greenwich Village aficionado). It would be just as appropriate in due course to have monuments to these great women in the City. Millay was a student at Vassar when Milholland visited the college as an alumna with her husband, my mother's uncle, at Vassar's 50th Anniversary.

I have donated toward the erection of the statues to Stanton and Anthony. My second contribution is this appeal, in addition to the one I posted in 2016. Please give!

VOTES FOR WOMEN | Statue for Stanton and Anthony in NYC

Susan B. Anthony (L) and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

I was pleased to read that The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Statue Fund is working to get a statue of Stanton and Anthony installed in New York City’s Central Park.

The Fund has been organized by Pam Elam, whom I have known since we were both on the staff of the New York City Comptroller in 1992-1993.

At present 22 statues in Central Park honor men. There is a statue to Mother Goose, but reportedly none to a real woman.

The statue will celebrate the largest nonviolent revolution in U.S. history, the movement to recognize women’s right to vote.

Pam Elam (L) and NYC
Comptroller Liz Holtzman.

NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver has approved Fund's accepting pledges and contributions for the design and creation of the statue as well as for our organizing, outreach and media efforts

Thanks to the pro bono assistance of Morrison Foerster ("MoFo"), the Fund has been granted tax-exempt status by the IRS under section 501 (c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. In accordance with the law, contributions to the Fund are deductible from taxable income.

DEATH | Queen Anne of Romania

Royal Romanian Wedding, 1948

Queen Anne of Romania died on August 1 in Switzerland. She never learned Romanian (the only Romance language spoken in Eastern Europe).

It was 44 years before she visited  the country that by title she ruled over.

She was born in 1923 as Princess Anne Antoinette Françoise Charlotte Bourbon-Parma.

When Germany invaded France in 1940, she moved to New York City and worked as a sales assistant in a store while studying painting.

She met King Michael I of Romania in 1947, after he had been forced to abdicate by the Communists. He was two years older. They were married in 1948. She is survived by him and five daughters.

See also my post on Romanian Lazăr Edeleanu, which has been viewed by an astonishingly large number of people. He died after the Nazi takeover of Romania.

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