The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Blackwell, Alice Stone

BLACKWELL, Alice Stone, American reformer, editor and author: b. East Orange, N. J., 14 Sept. 1857. A graduate and later a trustee of Boston University, she was early associated with her father and mother in editing The Woman's Journal and from 1885 to 1905 also edited The Women's Column. As chairman of the literature committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association and a forceful contributor to the Political Equality series and to periodical literature she became prominent in the cause of woman suffrage, and also worked on behalf of the oppressed Armenians and others. Her published works include &lsquo;Armenian Poems&rsquo; (1896); &lsquo;Songs of Russia&rsquo; (1906); &lsquo;Songs of Grief and Joy&rsquo; translated from the Yiddish of Ezekiel Leavitt (1908). Her father was a brother and she is the niece of the well-known physicians Elizabeth and Emily Blackwell (q.q.v.); also edited &lsquo;The Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution; Reminiscences and Letters of Madam Breshkovskaya&rsquo; (1917).