{"id":902,"date":"2019-07-30T15:29:53","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T15:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/?post_type=collection&#038;p=902"},"modified":"2024-07-26T11:21:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T15:21:31","slug":"laura-curtis-bullard-collection-1981","status":"publish","type":"collection","link":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/collections\/collections-a-z\/laura-curtis-bullard-collection-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Curtis Bullard collection, 1981"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/LauraCurtisBullardCollections.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Full finding aid (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Collection Scope and Content<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This collection includes a review and a reproduction photograph; also a biographical sketch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biographical\/Historical Note<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura Curtis Bullard was born in Freedom, Maine in 1831 to Lucy and Jeremiah Curtis. The family had a business selling the popular Mrs. Winslow&#8217;s Soothing Syrup, a morphine-based tonic used for aches and pains. In the early 1850s, Jeremiah moved the successful business and the family to New York City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura Curtis Bullard published her first novel, <em>Now-a-days!<\/em>, by the age of 23. Two years later, in 1856, she published the novel <em>Christine: or, Woman&#8217;s Trials and Triumphs<\/em>. She began editing her own newspaper, <em>The Ladies Visitor, and Drawing Room Companion<\/em>, which was published monthly from 1855 until 1861. In 1859 she married Enoch Bullard; they had one son. By the late 1860s she had taken on an active role in women&#8217;s rights organization and befriended Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Theodore Tilton. She was briefly editor-in-chief of the women&#8217;s rights newspaper <em>The Revolution<\/em>, founded by Susan B. Anthony in 1868. She continued to live in New York and died there in 1912 at the age of 81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","collection-category":[],"class_list":["post-902","collection","type-collection","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/collection"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7004,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection\/902\/revisions\/7004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"collection-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/mwwc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection-category?post=902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}