ANNE L. PAGE
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National Votes for Women Trail
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- 11 Page St, Danvers, MA 01923, USA
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National Collaborative for Women's History Sites
ANNE L. PAGE
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ANNE L. PAGE1828-1913
HOME OF EDUCATOR AND
LOCAL ACTIVIST. ADVOCATED FOR
WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE AS CHAIR OF
DANVERS WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSN.
WILLIAM G. POMEROY FOUNDATION 2022
Anne L. Page was an advocate for abolition, women’s suffrage and education reform throughout her life. Born in Danvers, Massachusetts in 1828, she would live there until her death in 1913. This marker stands at the former home of the local activist.
In 1882 a group of local women, including Page, established the Danvers Women’s Association (DWA). Page served as a chair for the organization which advocated for women’s suffrage, and her house was used as its headquarters as well. By 1923 the DWA consisted of 440 members according to Harriet Tapley’s, Chronicles of Danvers (pg. 196-197).
Along with her involvement in the women’s suffrage movement, Page was a key figure in the kindergarten movement in the United States. After running a school out of her house for much of her life geared towards younger students, she graduated from a kindergarten training class in 1879. Following graduation she worked in schools in Boston as well as training future kindergarten teachers in Danvers. In a 1924 publication by the International Kindergarten Union titled, Pioneers of the Kindergarten in America, an 11-page overview of Page’s career and influence is included. Regarding her involvement in the women’s suffrage movement in Danvers, the author of the piece, James L. Hugh writes on page 128:
“She was one of the founders of the Danvers Women’s Association, and till the end of her life she was deeply interested in all reasonable movements for the fuller development of women. Equal suffrage she believed in with a calm faith, and she was convinced of the absolute need for the higher and broader education of women.”
Following Page’s death, the “Page House” was acquired in 1914 by the Danvers Historical Society to prevent it from being razed, and Wellesley College opened a school named in honor of her on its campus shortly after her passing.
