Author: Anne B. Gass

Anne B. Gass is the author of Voting Down the Rose: Florence Brooks Whitehouse and Maine’s Fight for Woman Suffrage, published in 2014. Gass is Whitehouse’s great-granddaughter. She speaks regularly on women’s rights history and is active in several women's history and women's rights groups in Maine and nationally, including Maine’s Permanent Commission on the Status of Women.
'The Suffrage Road Trip': A Tribute to Two Middle-aged, Lesbian, Immigrant Suffragists

‘The Suffrage Road Trip’: A Tribute to Two Middle-Aged, Lesbian, Immigrant Suffragists

In “We Demand: The Suffrage Road Trip”, middle-aged lesbian Swedish immigrants Ingeborg Kindstedt and Maria Kindberg advocate for women’s suffrage in 1915.

I fell in love with Ingeborg and Maria when I retraced their route in 2015, and was astonished to find they’d gotten so little recognition for all they did—likely because they were older, working class women who spoke accented English.