She delivered notable lectures at the meetings of the National Woman Suffrage Association in Boston.

Samuel Sewall, minister of the Old South Church, and author of the history of Woburn.

Her great-grandfather was Judge Sewall, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice, who was affiliated with the Salem witch trials.

A firm believer in the equality of the sexes, she began when quite young to work for the enfranchisement of women.

Her first appearance as a public lecturer was in the meetings of the National Woman Suffrage Association in Boston and elsewhere.

She has been active in urging women to vote for the school committee, the only form of suffrage granted to them in Massachusetts.

She was a thorough believer in temperance, but held that the best way to obtain good laws was to put the ballot into the hands of women as well as men.