Florence Finch Kelly

Florence Finch Kelly (March 27, 1858 – December 17, 1939) was an American feminist, suffragist, journalist and author of novels and short stories.

Her father was a farmer in Illinois and Kansas, where the family moved by covered wagon.

Charles Sumner Finch, one of her brothers, became a newspaper publisher in Kansas.

Kelly contributed many articles to the Boston Globe and the anarchist periodical Liberty.

In addition to seven novels and numerous short stories and magazine articles on literary, artistic, and economic subjects, Florence Finch Kelly wrote an autobiography Flowing Stream: The Story of Fifty-six Years in American Newspaper Life (1939).