Woman of the Century — May Wright Sewall (1893)
“ She soon became known as a lecturer and as a delegate to conventions called in the interest of the higher education of women and the promotion of the cause of woman's equality before the law. She inherited a passion for human liberty in all its phases, and she can not remember the time when she did not feel that men and women were not treated alike, and that the discrimination was in favor of men. ”
Woman of the Century — May Wright Sewall (1893)
“ Sewall have given their whole attention to the school for girls. The school now has an annual enrollment of one-hundred-ninety pupils, including thirty in the boarding department. It has graduates in all the prominent colleges for women. About the time of her removal to Indianapolis, Mrs. Sewall became prominent in various lines of woman's work. Her varied powers found employment in the organization of literary, social and reform movements. ”
Woman of the Century — May Wright Sewall (1893)
“ Her life-work has been founded on the conviction that all avenues of culture and usefulness should be open to women, and that, when that result is obtained, the law of natural selection may MAY WRIGHT SEAWALL. safely be trusted to draw women to those employments, and only those, for which they are best fitted. She edited for two years a woman's column in the Indianapolis "Times," and she has written largely in the line of newspaper correspondence. ”
