Bradwell, Myra Colby

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Myra Colby Bradwell
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Female
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    4
    Family
    Eben Colby (father), Abigail Willey Colby (mother), James Bradwell (husband) 
    Other Education
    Elgin Female Seminary (IL)
    Occupation
    Attorney or Judge
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Other Affiliations
    Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
    Women’s Rights

    Myra Colby Bradwell (American National Bibliography)

    Scholarship
    Myra Bradwell was a tireless worker on behalf of legal reform and women's rights in Illinois and the nation. She believed that women's lives should not be restricted by prevailing social norms. She also believed that her legal colleagues should conduct themselves with honor and integrity. Throughout her life she devoted great energy and devotion to her causes--fighting for an end to slavery and racial discrimination, greater equality and opportunity for women, and reforms related to the legal profession.
    Susan Gluck Mezey, "Bradwell, Myra Colby," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/11/11-00095.html.
    How to Cite This Page: "Bradwell, Myra Colby," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/28683.