Historian Florence Woolsey was born in 1903. She received an AB from Goucher College and a Ph.D in Psychology from Cornell University in 1929. At Cornell, she married her high school and graduate school classmate, Albert S. Hazzard. Though she regarded raising her five children her chief occupation and history only a pastime, she went on to become an amateur historian in American women's history. At the University of Washington she was a Research Associate in Women's Studies. She received a Pi Lambda Theta Ella Dobbs award for her manuscript, "Women Pioneers in Democracy," written during a Goucher College fellowship at the University of Michigan in 1948. A digest version was published in the Pi Lambda Theta Journal (Vol. XXVII, No. 2, Part 1, December, 1949). Florence Hazzard died in 1992.
This small collection of historian Florence Hazzard's papers includes primarily manuscript material for her work "Women Pioneers in Democracy" (1948), a series of biographical essays on Abigail Adams, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Blackwell, Lucy Stone, Emma Willard, Lydia M. Child, Lucretia Mott, Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and the Grimke sisters. The collection also includes a small amount of biographical material about Hazzard, award letters for her writings (including a letter from Mary Ritter Beard), and correspondence from Lucy Elmina Anthony (niece of Susan B. Anthony).
The papers are open to research according to the regulations of the Sophia Smith Collection.
Copyright ownership for this collection is unknown. It is the responsibility of the researcher to identify and satisfy the holders of all copyrights. Permission to publish reproductions or quotations beyond "fair use" must also be obtained from the Sophia Smith Collection as owners of the physical property.
Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:
Florence Hazzard Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
Florence Hazzard donated her papers to the Sophia Smith Collection in 1965 and 1969.
Finding aid revised by Kelsey Radwilowicz, 2007.
Additional papers of Florence Woolsey Hazzard are at Cornell University Library, Harvard University (Schlesinger Library), and the New York State Archives.