![]() ![]() Emily took to the profession and proved to be the more natural scientist and practitioner. ![]() She anointed her sister Emily, five years younger, to follow her lead, recognizing the arduous loneliness of the path she had laid out for herself. She chose medicine not because she felt drawn to healing, but because earning a medical diploma was an unusually clear way to prove Fuller’s point. Two of his sons married two of the most prominent feminists of the day, Lucy Stone and Antoinette Brown.Įlizabeth was a voracious reader who thrilled to Margaret Fuller’s idea that women could be anything they wanted to be, and that humanity would only achieve enlightenment if women unleashed their own power. His daughters learned early that a husband was no guarantee of security, and none of them ever married. ![]() He gave his five daughters the same level of education as his four sons, he moved them to America and then all the way out to the frontier town of Cincinnati in 1838, and then he died, broke. The Blackwells hailed from Bristol, where their father was both a sugar refiner and an abolitionist - a Dissenter and an idealist who dreamed of finding a way to make sugar from beets, without enslaved labor. ![]()
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