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Isabella Beecher Hooker 1822-1907
Isabella Beecher was born, and died, in
Connecticut.
In 1841, she became Isabella Beecher
Hooker by marrying John Hooker.
Isabella was a suffragist, or
suffragette, meaning she fought for women's right to vote.
In her 1874 book Womanhood: Its
Sanctities and Fidelities, Hooker included some of her
correspondence with
John Stuart
Mill, who had sent her a copy of his 1869 book The
Subjection of Women.
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