Susan H. Wixon

Susan Helen Wixon
"A Woman of the Century"
Born	October 1839 Dennis Port, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died	August 28, 1912 (aged 72) Fall River, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation	school board member writer editor feminist educator
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Susan H. Wixon (October, 1839 - August 28, 1912) was an American freethought writer, editor, feminist, and educator of the long nineteenth century. She was a member of the Fall River School Board for 24 years.^[1][2] Wixon especially espoused the cause of women and children. In both politics and religion, she held radical views.^[3] She was the author of Apples of gold, and other stories for boys and girls (1876), Summer days at Onset (1887), Woman : four centuries of progress (1893), Sunday observance, or, How to spend Sunday (1893), Right living (1894), All in a lifetime : a romance (1894), and Some familiar places (1901).