Emma Leonora MacAlarney

Emma Leonora MacAlarney, also known as Emma Lenore MacAlarney, was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. MacAlarney attended Wellesley College in Massachusetts, graduating in 1892. She taught both in Harrisburg and at the Horace Mann School of Columbia University and published a textbook, *Readings from American Literature*. She also edited a newspaper column.

MacAlarney was active in the suffrage movement beginning in 1914. MacAlarney founded suffrage leagues in several different Pennsylvania towns, and spent much of the 1914-1917 period campaigning through the state, giving speeches to assemblies, and engaging in debates for the general public. MacAlarney served as the general secretary of the Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association at the end of 1915.

Following the culmination of the suffrage movement, she continued touring, speaking to educate women on their newfound civic rights and duties. She also served as principal for the Washington School of New York.

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