Smithsonian Voices

From the Smithsonian Museums

Meet Author, Suffragist, and Minister Phebe Hanaford

Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford was a successful author of fourteen books, but she was more than a writer. She was a social reformer who was an outspoken advocate for abolition and women’s suffrage and was also one of the first women ordained by the Universalist church

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Conserving and Digitizing the Hewitt Sisters' Diaries