Burr, Frances Ellen

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Frances Ellen Burr

Contributor to The Path, author of "A Word on Pronouns" (April 1889), objecting to the capitalizing of pronouns referring to the Mahatmas as a form of "hero-worship." Plausibly, but not confirmed, Frances Ellen Burr (1831-1923) of Hartford, Connecticut, a suffragist, journalist, and reporter, co-founder with Isabella Beecher Hooker of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association (1869), of which she served as secretary for 41 years, and later co-founder of the Hartford Equal Rights League (1885); no source found directly connects this Frances Ellen Burr to the Theosophical Society, but the egalitarian, anti-"hero-worship" tenor of the Path article matches her public reputation as an independent-minded reformer.

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• Works: Burr, Frances Ellen (works)
• CTD article in Russian: Бёрр, Фрэнсис Эллен

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