Elizabeth Boynton Harbert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elizabeth Boynton Harbert

American author, lecturer, reformer and philanthropist

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1843

Place of Birth: Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States

Date of Death: 19-Jan-1925

Profession: writer, suffragette, lecturer, novelist, philanthropist, suffragist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Elizabeth Boynton Harbert (pen name, Lizzie M.
Boynton; April 15, 1843 - January 19, 1925) was a 19th-century American author, lecturer, reformer and philanthropist from Indiana.
She was the first women to design a woman's plank and secure its adoption by a major political party in a U.S.
state. Harbert was a prolific writer, with publications such as The Golden Fleece, Out of Her Sphere, Amore, and The Illinois Chapter in the History of Woman Suffrage.
Her songs included: “Arlington Heights”, “What Have You Done with the Hours?”, “The New America” (lyrics), and “The Promised Land” (lyrics).
Her poems included “The Little Earth Angel” and Lines to My Anonymous Friend”.
Harbart's essays and lecturers were on topics such as “Before Suffrage, What?”, “Homes of Representative Women”, “The Domestic Problem”, “Men's Rights”, “Conversation and Conversers”, “The Ideal Home”, “George Eliot”, “Lucretia Mott”, “Statesmanship of Women”, “Aims, Ideals and Methods of Women’s Clubs”, “A Woman’s Dream of Cooperation”, “The Message of the Madonna", “Lyric Poets of Russia”, and “An Hour with the Strong Minded.”