The story of one turn-of-the-century female minister - trained right here in Meadville - whose passion for social change, votes for women and female solidarity made her not just one half of a national powercouple but a change-maker in her own right.

References:

Miller, Kenneth. From Progressive to New Dealer: Frederic C. Howe and American Liberalism. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.

Newspapers.com : Marie Jenney Howe

Courtesy Meadville Lombard Theological School:

“Fifty Years of Unity Church: The Story of the First Unitarian Church of Sioux City, Iowa.” UUA Congregational Records Collection, MLTS.US.3014.15.B003 (Iowa).

Jenney, Marie. “Women in the Ministry.” The Meadville Portfolio, Volume 1, No 2 (September 1894): 21-23.

Howe, Frederic C. The Confessions of a Reformer. The Kent State University Press, 1988.

Scutts, Joanna. Hotbed: Bohemian Greenwich village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism. Seal Press, 2022.

Howe, Marie Jenney. An Anti-Suffrage Monologue. National Woman Suffrage Association, [1912]. Nineteenth Century Collections

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Original music written and recorded by Jeff Rose of Gin & Sonic studio.