Elizabeth Jesser Reid
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Elizabeth Jesser Reid, forename sometimes spelled Elisabeth, was an English social reformer, anti-slavery activist, and philanthropist. She is best remembered as the founder of Bedford College.
Elizabeth Jesser Reid died 1866
Green plaque at Bedford Square, London
Royal Holloway Building
Lucretia Mott
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Lucretia Mott was an American Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer. She had formed the idea of reforming the position of women in society when she was amongst the women e
Elizabeth Jesser Reid
…causes. Active in liberal Unitarian circles, Reid was an anti-slavery activist, attending the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London in 1840. She met Lucretia Mott and the other American female delegates who had been denied the right to speak at the convention. and taking a close interest in the American Civil…
Signed portrait, c. 1870-1880
James and Lucretia Mott, 1842
Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society, N 5th & Arch Streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Sculptor Lloyd Lillie's "The First Wave" statues in the Women's Rights National Historical Park Visitor Center. On the far left are Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Frederick Douglass (with Lucretia Mott and James Mott not visible behind them); of the two women in the front, the one on the right is Martha Coffin Wright; the man and woman standing together in the rear are Thomas M'Clintock and Mary Ann M'Clintock. The others are unidentified.