ContentsScope and Contents of the Collection
Correspondence, mostly from Margaret Sanger (includes some writings and clippings)1916-1955, n.d. Pamphlets and articles (birth control and other)1916-1952, n.d |
Juliet Barrett Rublee Papers, 1917-1955Finding AidEncoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.© 2005
Biographical NoteJuliet Rublee, autographed to Margaret Sanger (from Margaret Sanger Papers), undatedBirth control advocate; Pacifist; Feminist. Juliet Barrett eas born in Chicago in 1875. She attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, CT; she married George Rublee, lawyer and political advisor to Dwight Morrow and later a Wilson appointee to the Federal Trade Commission in 1899. Active in modern dance early in the 20th century, Juliet Rublee became involved in the birth control movement in 1916 after Margaret Sanger's arrest. Thereafter she was Sanger's "closest friend and ally," giving not only of her time but also her personal fortune. She was a strong pacifist at the outbreak of World War I. During the 1920s she branched out even more--in 1925 she led a diving expedition for treasure in the Mediterranean, and at the end of the decade she produced a film on the Mexican Revolution. She spent most of her later years in her Cornish, NH home. Juliet Rublee died in 1966. According to Margaret Sanger's biographer, Ellen Chesler, "More than any other figure in the country's social establishment, [Juliet Rublee] would be responsible for subsequent changes in the orientation of the birth control movement." (Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America. NY: Anchor Books, 1993). Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the CollectionThe bulk of the collection, and its greatest strength, consists of correspondence from Margaret Sanger, circa 1916-1955. There are also photographs and portraits of Juliet Rublee; pamphlets and articles on birth control and other topics; and a Master's thesis, examining the correspondence between Juliet Rublee and Margaret Sanger, by Jane Bowers (1994). A collection of glass slides, used for protesting World War I may be of interest to scholars of pacifism. Note: The Sanger correspondence was indexed and microfilmed for the Margaret Sanger Papers Project in 1996. Return to the Table of Contents Search TermsReturn to the Table of Contents
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