Alice Stelzer
Author (“Female Adventurers”) and lecturer on women’s history throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Publisher, “Women Unlimited”
One Class
10:30-12:00
March 26
The contributions of many women were very valuable to the founding of New England. We’ll look at the lives of some of these 17th century Puritans, including Mary Blott Woodford, an indentured maid who married an indentured servant and became wealthy; Anne Dudley Bradstreet, the first woman to have her poetry published in America; and Susanna Garbrand Hooker Goodwin who was a waiting gentlewoman for Francis Drake’s wife, later married a minister, and, after becoming an invalid, traveled from Massachusetts to Connecticut on a horse-drawn travois. They each left a legacy that deserves our respect.