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Florence Kelley

American social reformer
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Florence Molthrop Kelley
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September 12, 1859, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
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February 17, 1932, Philadelphia (aged 72)

Florence Kelley (born September 12, 1859, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died February 17, 1932, Philadelphia) was an American social reformer who contributed to the development of state and federal labour and social welfare legislation in the United States. Kelley graduated from Cornell University in 1882. After a year spent conducting evening classes for working women in Philadelphia, she traveled to Europe, where she attended the University of Zürich. There she came under the influence of European socialism; her translation of Friedrich Engels’s The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844 was published in New York in 1887. She returned to ...(100 of 444 words)

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