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Nov 01, 1856 Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States Died on 02 Feb 1937 (aged 80)
American lecturer, author, art, literature critic and suffragette
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About Mary Hanford Ford
- Mary Hanford Ford (November 1, 1856 – February 2, 1937) was an American lecturer, author, art and literature critic and a leader in the women's suffrage movement.
- She reached early notoriety in Kansas at the age of 28 and soon left for the Chicago World's Fair.
- She was taken up by the society ladies of the Chicago area who, impressed with her talks on art and literature at the Fair, helped launch her on a new career, initially in Chicago and then across some States.
- Along the way she was already published in articles and noticed in suffrage meetings.
- In addition to work as an art critic and speaker she wrote a number of books, most prominently a trilogy Message of the Mystics.
- Circa 1900-1902 Ford found the Bahá'í Faith through Sarah Farmer, Green Acre, and Mirza Abu'l-Fa?l, and helped form the first community of Bahá'ís in Boston where Louis Bourgeois, future architect of the first Bahá'í House of Worship in the West, then joined the religion.
- In 1907 Ford went on Bahá'í pilgrimage, in 1910 she started writing Bahá'í books such as The Oriental Rose, and traveled with ?Abdu'l-Bahá during some of his journeys in various places in Europe and then America.
- Ford was blamed for a fiasco among UK suffragists but it was their own violence that got them in trouble.
- Ford spent the years of World War I in California following the first Bahá'í International Congress at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition, and then moved back to New York where she spent almost the next 20 years.
- Often she traveled to Europe for some months of the year and during this period introduced the religion to Ugo Giachery, later a prominent Bahá'í.
- Also in this period she was censored off a radio broadcast, helped develop the religion's community both in meetings she supported and literary efforts, before reducing her travels and speaking engagements in the early 1930s.
- She died with her daughter by her bedside in 1937.
