Elizabeth Grill Watson (January 7, 1914 – February 24, 2006) was an American Quaker minister, curator, and feminist theologian.
[1][2][3] Elizabeth Grill Watson was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on January 7, 1914.
After the Watsons' oldest child, Sara, died in a car accident in 1964, Elizabeth wrote Guests of My Life due to the event.
[2][10] The Watsons' Chicago home was the first mailing address and meeting place used by CORE, an African-American civil rights organization.
[7] In addition to the Quaker concept of an inward light, Watson spoke of an inward darkness she described as "not ... desolation or evil, but a quiet waiting and creativity.
"[11] After moving to Long Island, New York, Watson worked as a curator for the Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site in the 1970s.
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