Elizabeth Baker Bohan

Elizabeth Baker Bohan
"A Woman of the Century"
BornElizabeth Claire Baker
August 18, 1849
Birmingham, England
DiedAugust 27, 1930 (aged 81)
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting placeWoodlawn Memorial Cemetery, Santa Monica, California, U.S.[1]
Occupation
  • author
  • journalist
  • artist
  • social reformer
  • teacher
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish, American
Spouse
Michael Bohan
(m. 1872)
Children2 sons, 2 daughters
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Elizabeth Baker Bohan (née, Baker; August 18, 1849 – August 27, 1930) was a British-born American author, journalist, artist, and social reformer. She had a special interest in the reconstruction of the penal system. She published two novels, Un Americano, a story of the mission days of California (1895) and The Drag-Net, a prison story of the present day (1909, illustrated by Langdon Smith).

  1. ^ "Funeral Rites For Writer Tomorrow". The Los Angeles Times. 29 August 1930. p. 20. Retrieved 3 December 2021 – via Newspapers.com.