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In this post I will continue to focus on a woman named Eliza Sproat Turner. She lived from 1826 - 1903. Eliza joined the Philadelphia Union of Associationists in 1847, and the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in the 1850s. She helped found the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association in 1869, and was its first corresponding secretary.
At the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, Emily was a leader of the Women's Congress and distributed the newspaper "New Century for Women" that she wrote and edited at the Women's Pavilion.
The New Century Club women's club was founded in Philadelphia in 1877 following a stirring paper that Eliza delivered at the Women's Congress. Eliza was president from 1879 - 1881 and the first corresponding secretary of the literary, social and community organisation.
Evening classes were held for working girls and women and the success of the endeavour led to the founding of the New Century Guild of Working Women in 1882. It held vocational classes, philosophy and history study groups and activities.
Eliza brought poor children from the city to stay in the summer at her country estate for a week. In 1875, she developed a formal program, the Children's Country Week Association of Philadelphia based on her efforts. She was a founding member of Philadelphia's consumer league and director of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Eliza died in 1903.
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