Mary Livermore

Mary Livermore (1820-1905) was an American journalist and advocate of women's rights. She attended school at an all-female seminary in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and read the entire bible every year until the age of 23. She graduated from the seminary in 1836, but stayed there as a teacher for two years. In 1839, she started a job as a tutor on a Virginia plantation, and after witnessing the cruel institution of slavery, she became an abolitionist. In 1842, she left the plantation to take charge of a private school in Duxbury, Massachusetts where she worked for three years. In May, 1845, she married Daniel P. Livermore, a Universalist minister. Livermore and her husband moved to Chicago in 1857 where Mary became the associate editor of the Unitarian newspaper, New Covenant.

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