TWO ANNE PARRISHES

The first was born in 1760, a Quaker who out of gratitude for her parents surviving yellow fever, opened the first charitable organization for women in the US, in Philadelphia in 1795. It was The House of Industry which supplied jobs to poor women. The next year she founded the Aimwell School for needy girls. She was its first teacher and it continued until 1923.
The second Anne, a writer, came from a family of writers. She was born in 1888 and wrote both children’s books and adult fiction until her death in 1957.

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