Frances Maule Bjorkman
Frances Maule Bjorkman (1879–1966) was a New Yorker prominent in the woman's suffrage movement. She was a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association.[1][2] She was a member of the Heterodoxy women's group.[3] She lived at the Helicon Home Colony, an experimental community founded by Upton Sinclair.
Biography
Frances Maule was born in Fairmont, Nebraska on October 24, 1879. She attended Notre Dame of Maryland University and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She married Edwin Björkman in New York City in 1906. She was a Socialist active in the feminist movement.[4]
Writings
- Home and school visitors (1909)
- The cure for two million sick: The discovery of the hookworm disease (1909) with Charles Wardell Stiles
- Tests of Woman Suffrage States in The New York Times on June 3, 1912
- Woman suffrage: history, arguments and results (1913)
References
- ^ "35 Delegates to Washington Convention Settling Down to Real Business. Plan to Raise Funds for National Body by Per Capita Tax of State Association Members. ... Eleanor Byrnes, and Frances Maule BJorkman, reported ..." The New York Times. December 2, 1913. Retrieved 2009-11-19.
The fifty-fifth annual convention of the National Woman's Suffrage Association got down to business to-day with three well-attended sessions in the auditorium of the new Masonic Temple.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Douglas Clayton (1994). Floyd Dell: the life and times of an American rebel. ISBN 1-56663-059-2.
Frances Maule Bjorkman, of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, wrote Dell while the series was running in the Friday Literary Review during ...
{{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|coauthors=(help) - ^ Schwarz, Judith (1986). Radical Feminists of Heterodoxy: Greenwich Village, 1912-1940 (Rev. ed.). Norwich, VT: New Victoria Publishers. p. 123. ISBN 0-934678-08-1.
- ^ Leonard, John William, ed. (1914), Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, American Commonwealth Company, p. 102
