Nellie H. Bradley

Nellie H. Bradley (c. 1838 – ) was an American writer of plays and songs in support of the temperance movement. She published her songs under the pen name Stella or Stella of Washington.

Biography She was the daughter of Henry Harper Hazard and Harriet Amanda Bibb Hazard, and she married Francis M. Bradley, an employee of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Bradley's crusades were not limited to alcohol. In 1887 she campaigned against the display in Washington cigar shops of reproductions of Alfred Alboy-Rebouet's painting of a scantly-clad woman, Night, then owned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art.

Nellie H. Bradley died on February 13, 1927, in Washington, D.C. at the age of 88.