About Sara A. Underwood
Lived 1838 – 1911 (aged 72). Sara A. Underwood was a writer and suffragist.
Sara A. Underwood (21 July 1838 – 16 March 1911) was a prominent English-born American freethought lecturer and writer, and an active part of the movement for women's suffrage.
Life Sara A. Underwood was born Sara A. Francis in Penrith, Cumbria, moving with her family to Rhode Island while still a young child.
Work As a lecturer, Sara A. Underwood became widely known 'for espousing liberal religious thought' for over three decades. Between 1880 and 1886 she was a co-editor of the Boston Index, the organ of the Free Religious Association.
Underwood spoke and wrote in the cause of equal rights for women,
Death Sara A. Underwood died in a sanatorium in Jacksonville, Illinois, in the early hours of 16 March 1911.
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American suffragist
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Sara A. Underwood was born on 21 July 1838 in England, Penrith, Cumbria.
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Sara A. Underwood died on 16 March 1911 in Jacksonville, Illinois.
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Sara A. Underwood was a writer and suffragist.
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