37 Facts About Inez Milholland

Inez Milholland Boissevain was a leading American suffragist, lawyer, and peace activist.

Inez Milholland was a labor lawyer and a war correspondent, as well as a high-profile New Woman of the age, with her avant-garde lifestyle and belief in free love.

Inez Milholland died of pernicious anemia on a speaking tour, traveling against medical advice.

Inez Milholland had one sister, Vida, and one brother, John.

Inez Milholland's father was a New York Tribune reporter and editorial writer who eventually headed a pneumatic tubes business that afforded his family a privileged life in both New York and London.

Inez Milholland's father supported many reforms, among them world peace, civil rights, and women's suffrage.

Inez Milholland's mother exposed her children to cultural and intellectual stimulation.

Inez Milholland spent summers on her family's land in Lewis, Essex County, New York; the property is the Meadowmount School of Music.

Inez Milholland received her early education at the Comstock School in New York and Kensington Secondary School in London.

Inez Milholland started the suffrage movement at Vassar, enrolled two-thirds of the students, and taught them the principles of socialism.

Inez Milholland was president of the campus Intercollegiate Socialist Society, which was dominated by women at the time and reflected their identification with the oppressed.

Inez Milholland was involved in student productions, the Current Topics Club, the German Club, and the debating team.

Inez Milholland was finally matriculated at the New York University School of Law, from which she took her LL.

Inez Milholland was not only interested in prison reform, but sought world peace and worked for equality for African Americans.

Inez Milholland was a member of the NAACP, the Women's Trade Union League, the Equality League of Self Supporting Women in New York, the National Child Labor Committee, and England's Fabian Society.

Inez Milholland was involved in the National American Woman Suffrage Association, which later branched into the grassroots radical National Woman's Party.

Inez Milholland became a leader and a popular speaker on the campaign circuit of the NWP, working closely with Alice Paul and Lucy Burns.

Inez Milholland was later admitted to the bar and joined the New York law firm of Osborne, Lamb, and Garvan, handling criminal and divorce cases.

Inez Milholland stepped into her first suffrage parade on May 7,1911.

On March 3,1913, the day before President Woodrow Wilson's inauguration, Inez Milholland, 26, made her most memorable appearance, at the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington DC which she had helped organize.

Inez Milholland believed that women should have the right to vote because of the traits that were unique to women.

Inez Milholland told men that they should not worry about the women in their lives as they were extending their sacred rights and duties to the whole country rather than inside the home.

Inez Milholland traveled overseas to Italy at the beginning of World War I shortly after the RMS Lusitania had been torpedoed by a German U-boat.

Inez Milholland worked to be allowed to visit the front lines in the war as she continued to write anti-war articles that led to her censure by the Italian government, which banned her from the country.

Inez Milholland felt that she had been barred from the front because she was a woman and not because she was a pacifist.

Inez Milholland was a leading figure on Henry Ford's ill-fated Peace Ship expedition of late 1915, steaming across the Atlantic with a team of pacifist campaigners who hoped to give impetus to a negotiated settlement to the First World War.

Inez Milholland became the classic New Woman in the beginning of the 20th century.

Inez Milholland loved the new dance crazes of the Turkey Trot and the Grizzly Bear and enjoyed traveling to Paris and buying Parisian couture gowns.

Inez Milholland knew Max through his sister, Crystal Eastman, whom she met at socialist and suffrage rallies.

Inez Milholland told Max that she loved him and tried to convince him to elope with her.

Inez Milholland told him she loved him but he didn't reciprocate right away.

In July, 1913 while on a cruise to London, Inez Milholland proposed to Eugen Jan Boissevain, a Dutchman she had known for about a month.

John Inez Milholland was in New York at the time and heard about the marriage from the press.

Inez Milholland was no longer an American citizen because the Expatriation Act of 1907 provided that if an American woman married a non-American, she took her husband's nationality.

Inez Milholland did not stop flirting with other men after her marriage and often wrote to Boissevain to tell him.

Carl Sandburg wrote a poem about Inez Milholland titled "Repetitions," which appears in his 1918 volume, Cornhuskers.

Edna St Vincent Millay, who married Milholland's widower Eugen Boissevain in 1923, wrote a poem, "To Inez Milholland," included in her 1928 collection The Buck in the Snow.