Rheta Childe Dorr (1868-1948) was a member of the National Woman Suffrage Association. Her work as a journalist was not widely accepted as proper woman's work. She fought hard for women's suffrage.

As a child in Nebraska, Rheta Childe routinely disobeyed her parents. At age twelve she sneaked out of the house to attend a women's rights rally led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Her parents found out when the newspaper printed the names of those who had joined the National Woman Suffrage Association. She began working at the age of fifteen, over the objections of her parents, so that she could become independent and prove her industry. She was conservative by nature but became a rebel upon viewing a tombstone inscribed "Also Harriet, wife of the above."

Self-Expression

In 1890 Childe went to New York City to study at the Art Students' League and decided...