Elizabeth Hussey Whittier

Overview

Elizabeth Hussey Whittier born Haverhill, MA December 7, 1815 (d. 1864). Quaker pacifist; poet; abolitionist; founder of Female Anti-Slavery Society, Boston, 1833; mobbed, 1835; sister of poet.

Quotations

"Shall the Koran teach thee the Law of Love?
O Christian! Open thy heart and door"
(Charity in JGW Works 483; A.L.McPhail sketch from Pickard Life of JGW)