Elizabeth Boynton Harbert

Elizabeth Boynton Harbert
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	Elizabeth Morrison Boynton April 15, 1843/1845 Crawfordsville, Indiana, U.S.
Died	January 19, 1925 (aged 79 or 81) Pasadena, California, U.S.
Pen name	Lizzie M. Boynton
Nickname	"Lizzie"
Occupation	Author, lecturer, reformer, philanthropist
Citizenship	United States
Education	Oxford Female College
Alma mater	Ohio Wesleyan University
Spouse	William S. Harbert

Elizabeth Morrison Harbert (née Boynton; pen name, Lizzie M. Boynton; April 15, 1843/1845 - January 19, 1925) was a 19th-century American author, lecturer, reformer and philanthropist from Indiana. She was the first women to design a woman's plank and secure its adoption by a major political party in a U.S. state.^{[citation needed]}

Harbert was a prolific writer, with publications such as The Golden Fleece, Out of Her Sphere, Amore, and The Illinois Chapter in the History of Woman Suffrage. Her songs included: “Arlington Heights”, “What Have You Done with the Hours?”, “The New America” (lyrics), and “The Promised Land” (lyrics). Her poems included “The Little Earth Angel” and Lines to My Anonymous Friend”. Harbart's essays and lecturers were on topics such as “Before Suffrage, What?”, “Homes of Representative Women”, “The Domestic Problem”, “Men's Rights”, “Conversation and Conversers”, “The Ideal Home”, “George Eliot”, “Lucretia Mott”, “Statesmanship of Women”, “Aims, Ideals and Methods of Women’s Clubs”, “A Woman’s Dream of Cooperation”, “The Message of the Madonna", “Lyric Poets of Russia”, and “An Hour with the Strong Minded.”^[1]