Anna Manning Comfort

Anna Manning Comfort
M.D.
"A Woman of the Century"
Born
Anna Manning

January 19, 1845
Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.
DiedJanuary 12, 1931(1931-01-12) (aged 85)
New York, U.S.
Alma materNew York Medical College and Hospital for Women
OccupationGynecologist
Notable workWomen's Education and Women's Health: Chiefly in Reply to "Sex in Education"
Spouse
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(m. 1871; died 1910)​
RelativesDr. Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier (aunt)
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Anna Manning Comfort, M.D. (née Manning; January 19, 1845 – January 12, 1931) was an American physician who specialized in the treatment .[1][2] She was the first woman medical graduate to practice in the state of Connecticut.[3]

Comfort was also an activist and vocal opponent of American imperialism.[4] She was a leader in the women's suffrage movement, as well as a social reformer who defended the rights of Native Americans and African Americans.[5] A member of Sorosis since 1878, Comfort was also a pioneer clubwoman.[6]

  1. ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). "COMFORT, Mrs. Anna Manning". A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life. Charles Wells Moulton. pp. 196–97. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  2. ^ Kirschmann, Anne Taylor (2004). A Vital Force: Women in American Homeopathy. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0-8135-3320-9. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  3. ^ Who's who in New York City and State. L.R. Hamersly Company. 1907. p. 315. Retrieved 29 October 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  4. ^ Murphy, Erin L. (2009). "WOMEN'S ANTI-IMPERIALISM, "THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN," AND THE PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR: Theorizing Masculinist Ambivalence in Protest". Gender and Society. 23 (2): 244–270. doi:10.1177/0891243209333791. ISSN 0891-2432. JSTOR 20676773. S2CID 145743102.
  5. ^ Williams, J. S. (2 September 2019). "Anna Manning Comfort". Women In Peace. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  6. ^ Woman's Who's who of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Women of the United States and Canada. Vol. 1. American Commonwealth Company. 1914. p. 196. Retrieved 29 October 2022. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.