Frances Maule Bjorkman

Frances Maule Bjorkman (1879–1966) was a New Yorker prominent in the woman's suffrage movement. She was a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association.[1][2] She was a member of the Heterodoxy women's group.[3] She lived at the Helicon Home Colony, an experimental community founded by Upton Sinclair.

Robert Cameron Beadle, Alfred H. Brown and Frances Maule Bjorkman on August 26, 1913

Biography

Frances Maule was born in Fairmont, Nebraska on October 24, 1879. She attended Notre Dame of Maryland University and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She married Edwin Björkman in New York City in 1906. She was a Socialist active in the feminist movement.[4]

Writings

References
  1. "35 Delegates to Washington Convention Settling Down to Real Business. Plan to Raise Funds for National Body by Per Capita Tax of State Association Members. ... Eleanor Byrnes, and Frances Maule BJorkman, reported ..." The New York Times. December 2, 1913. Retrieved 2009-11-19. The fifty-fifth annual convention of the National Woman's Suffrage Association got down to business to-day with three well-attended sessions in the auditorium of the new Masonic Temple.
  2. Douglas Clayton (1994). Floyd Dell: the life and times of an American rebel. ISBN 1-56663-059-2. Frances Maule Bjorkman, of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, wrote Dell while the series was running in the Friday Literary Review during ...
  3. Schwarz, Judith (1986). Radical Feminists of Heterodoxy: Greenwich Village, 1912-1940 (Rev. ed.). Norwich, VT: New Victoria Publishers. p. 123. ISBN 0-934678-08-1.
  4. Leonard, John William, ed. (1914), Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada, American Commonwealth Company, p. 102
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