page_title: Emily Parmely Collins
hierarchical_section_title: Emily Parmely Collins
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context_page_description: Emily Parmely Collins; known as Emily Parmely Peltier after her first marriage and by her pen name, Justitia; was an American woman suffragist, women's rights activist, and writer. She was the first woman in the United States to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights, in South Bristol, New York in 1848.
  She was an early participant in the abolitionism movement, the temperance movement as well as a pioneer in the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She believed that the full development of a woman's capacities to be of supreme importance to the well-being of humanity; and advocated through the press for woman's educational, industrial and political rights.
context_section_description: Emily Parmely Collins (August 11, 1814 – April 14, 1909); known as Emily Parmely Peltier after her first marriage and by her pen name, Justitia; was an American woman suffragist, women's rights activist, and writer. She was the first woman in the United States to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights, in South Bristol, New York in 1848.
  She was an early participant in the abolitionism movement, the temperance movement  as well as a pioneer in the women's suffrage movement in the United States. She believed that the full development of a woman's capacities to be of supreme importance to the well-being of humanity; and advocated through the press for woman's educational, industrial and political rights.
caption: Emily Parmely Collins, "A woman of the century"
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