Biography
The daughter of Henry Browne Blackwell and Lucy Stone, she was born in East Orange, New Jersey.
Alice was educated at the Harris Grammar School in Dorchester, the Chauncy School in Boston, and Boston University, from where she graduated in 1881 at age 24. She belonged to Phi Beta Kappa Society. She was an editor (1881–1917) of the Woman's Journal, the major publication of the women's rights movement at that time, first as assistant to her parents and after their deaths as editor in chief.
From 1890 to 1908 Alice Stone Blackwell was the National American Woman Suffrage Association's recording secretary and in 1909 and 1910 one of the national auditors. She was also prominent in Woman's Christian Temperance Union activities. In 1903 she reorganized the Society of Friends of Russian Freedom in Boston.
In later life, Alice went blind.
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