1. Adeline E "Delle" Knapp was an American journalist, author, social activist, environmentalist and educator, who is today remembered largely for her relationship with Charlotte Perkins Gilman, which was likely romantic.
21 Facts About Adeline Knapp
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An outspoken writer who often addressed controversial topics in her columns for The San Francisco Call, Adeline Knapp wrote on a wide range of subjects from livestock to the Annexation of Hawaii.
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At a time when many American women were joining the movement to extend political and voting rights to women, Adeline Knapp spoke in state senate hearings in New York expressing doubts about the benefits of suffrage to women, and she allowed her speeches and letters on the topic to be used as propaganda by the anti-suffragism movement.
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Adeline Knapp was born on March 14,1860, in Buffalo, New York, to Lyman and Adeline Knapp.
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Adeline Knapp was one of nine children born to this family.
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Adeline Knapp published her own four-page, 12-column newspaper, entitled The Queen City Enterprise.
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Adeline Knapp continued on while publishing the Aspirant in Buffalo and became widely known as a poet.
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In 1835, Lyman Adeline Knapp arrived in Buffalo via Hudson and began working in the wholesale and retail grocery business.
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Adeline Knapp's parents instilled a strong work ethic in the lives of their children.
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Adeline Knapp sought employment and soon started working in a large mercantile house.
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In 1887, Adeline Knapp left Buffalo for San Francisco, taking a position on staff at the San Francisco Call, where she founded the paper's Woman's Department, which became very popular.
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Adeline Knapp soon established herself as an important member of the San Francisco Bay Area literary community, particularly its East Bay contingent, which included Joaquin Miller, Edwin Markham, Ina Coolbrith, Charles Keeler, and Yone Noguchi.
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Adeline Knapp served as chair to the Program Committee of the Pacific Coast Women's Press Association.
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The problems of the Hawaiian monarchy were only one reason Adeline Knapp thought resistance movements unlikely to succeed.
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Adeline Knapp was one of a thousand volunteer teachers known as the Thomasites who went to the Philippines aboard the ship US Army Transport Thomas to teach in the new Filipino schools.
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In 1902, Adeline Knapp authored a history book about the Philippines.
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One of Adeline Knapp's activist efforts was an 1892 series of fictionalized sketches portraying the evils of child labor.
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At a time in American history when women were rallying the cry to extend rights to women, Adeline Knapp voiced her opinions through the publication of literature that spoke out against the suffrage movement.
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Adeline Knapp spoke before the Senate and Assembly Judiciary Committee of the New York State Legislature, and her views were publicized in pamphlets published by the New York State Association Opposed to the Extension of Suffrage to Women.
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Adeline Knapp is not listed as a member in the Association's 1908 Annual Report, but was presumably aware of its use of her writings as propaganda.
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On June 6,1909, Adeline Knapp died in California after a long illness.