#19SuffrageStories – Number 1 – Lucy Burns

We are going to start the #19SuffrageStories with a well-known figure in the Suffrage Movement, Lucy Burns! Lucy was born in 1879 to an Irish Catholic family in Brooklyn, New York. A well-educated student of language and linguistics, Lucy graduated from Vassar College before studying abroad. It was at Oxford College in England where she first encountered the militant British Suffrage Movement. Inspired by these women, Lucy…