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Georgiana Bruce Kirby
Georgiana Bruce Kirby (7 December 1818 - 27 January 1887) was an American teacher and writer noted for her work in women's suffrage in the late 19th century.[1][2] She founded the Santa Cruz Society of Suffragists in 1869.[3]
Early life
Georgiana Bruce was born on December 7, 1818, in Bristol, England.[4] Lack of financial resources meant that she only had two years of formal schooling before taking positions with other families.
At fourteen, she became a governess to an English family, taking her to Paris and then Melbourne, Canada, where she became a school teacher and taught farming fundamentals. She returned to London in 1837 and within a year was working for the American Unitarian minister Ezra Stiles Gannett, who brought her to Boston at the age of twenty.
Life in the USA
Georgiana joined the Transcendentalist community of Brook Farm at West Roxbury, Massachusetts, with her brother where they lived c