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Emma Winner Rogers
Emma Winner Rogers (, Winner; January 20, 1855 – March 3, 1922) was an American writer and speaker upon economic and social questions, and on the Arts and Crafts movement. She favored suffrage, and served as an officer of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Among her published works can be counted ''Deaconesses in the early church. Deaconesses in the modern church.'' (1891), ''The social failure of the city '' (1898), ''The Journal of a Country Woman'' (1912), and ''Why not complete the enfranchisement of women'' (1912). Biography Emma Ferdon Winner was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, January 20, 1855. She was the daughter of Rev. John Ogden Winner and Sarah J. (Taylor) Winner. Her father and grandfather, Rev. Isaac Winner, D. D., were clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church and natives of New Jersey. On the maternal side, she was the granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Moses Taylor, and Moses Taylor, second, during their lives successful business men of Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Woman Of The Century
A, or a, is the first letter and the first vowel of the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''a'' (pronounced ), plural ''aes''. It is similar in shape to the Ancient Greek letter alpha, from which it derives. The uppercase version consists of the two slanting sides of a triangle, crossed in the middle by a horizontal bar. The lowercase version can be written in two forms: the double-storey a and single-storey ɑ. The latter is commonly used in handwriting and fonts based on it, especially fonts intended to be read by children, and is also found in italic type. In English grammar, " a", and its variant " an", are indefinite articles. History The earliest certain ancestor of "A" is aleph (also written 'aleph), the first letter of the Phoenician alphabet, which consisted entirely of consonants (for that reason, it is also called an abjad to distinguish it fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
