Paulina Wright Davis
1813-1876 - American lecturer and suffragist
- Born Paulina Kellogg in Bloomfield, NY
- In 1833 she married merchant Francis Wright (d. 1835)
- In 1849 she married Thomas Davis (who later became a congressman for Rhode Island)
- Davis was active in the early antislavery and women's rights movements
- In 1844 she lectured to women on anatomy and physiology
- Davis helped to open the medical profession to women
- In 1853 she founded Una, the first women's rights paper in the U.S.
- In 1871 she published A History of the National Women's Rights Movement
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