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In this post I will begin to focus on a woman named Eliza Sproat Turner. She lived from 1826 - 1903. Eliza was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father was a writer and a farmer fromVerrmont. Her mother, Maria Lutwyche, came to the United States with her parents and two sisters in 1818 from Birmingham, England and settled in Philadelphia.
Eliza was raised a Quaker and attended Philadelphia public schools. She taught for several years at the Philadelphia public schools and from 1850 -1853 at Girard College.
While working as a teacher she wrote poetry and prose, which was published in magazines and newspapers. Her writing began to reflect her interest in the femine movement and suffrage.In one of her writings she lamented over having "a mind that is never consulted, a will that is never respected."
Eliza married Nathaniel Randolph in 1855. He was a wealthy lumber merchant and a devout Quaker. Sadly, he died in 1858.
During the civil war Eliza met Joseph C. Turner when both volunteered to assist the wounded at Gettysburg. They married in 1864 and lived at a country estate in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, called Windtryst.
Read Part One Hundred And Forty-Nine HERE
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