Alice Parker Lesser

Alice Parker Lesser (April 21, 1863 – October 30, 1939) was an American lawyer, suffragist, and clubwoman based in Boston, Massachusetts.

[3] A trial lawyer and general practitioner, in the 1890s she used her legal knowledge (something extremely rare for a woman of that era to possess) for the benefit of women.

She lectured and published a series of articles in the “Home Journal” of Boston under the title of “Law for my Sisters”, by which she explained to women the law of marriage, widows, breach of promise, wife’s necessaries, life insurance on divorce, sham marriages, and names.

"[8] Alice Parker Lesser was part of the American delegation to the International Woman Suffrage Alliance congress in 1911, at Stockholm, representing Massachusetts.

[9] Later in life, as Alice Parker Hutchins, she was editor of the Women Lawyers' Journal and was based in New York City.