Sara Bard Field

Sara Bard Field
Field, around 1915
BornSeptember 1, 1882
DiedJune 15, 1974(1974-06-15) (aged 91)
Other namesSara Ehrgott
Occupation(s)Poet
Suffragist
Spouse(s)Albert Ehrgott (c. 1900–1914)
Charles Erskine Scott Wood (1938–1944)

Sara Bard Field (September 1, 1882 – June 15, 1974) was an American poet, suffragist, free love advocate, Georgist, and Christian socialist. She worked on successful campaigns for women's suffrage in Oregon and Nevada.[1] Working with Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, Field drove across the country from California to Washington, D.C., to present a petition containing a reported 500,000 signatures demanding a federal suffrage amendment to President Woodrow Wilson. She was known as a skilled orator and became a poet later in her career, marrying her long-time partner and mentor, poet and lawyer C.E.S. Wood.

  1. ^ Barnes, Tim. "Sara Bard Field (1882-1974)". The Oregon Encyclopedia. Portland State University. Retrieved March 9, 2013.