Ednah Dow Cheney

The New England Female Medical College, founded in 1848, was here. It trained women in medicine, including Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler (1831-1895), the first African American woman doctor.

The Tuesday Club, founded in 1896 under Ednah Dow Cheney, saved the historic Loring Greenough House in 1924. It remains a vital community hub in Jamaica Plain.

Ednah Dow Cheney (1824-1904), an activist for women’s suffrage and abolition, lived here. She founded the New England Women’s Club and led the New England Hospital for Women. ​​

Elizabeth Peabody's (1804-1894) Book Shop hosted Margaret Fuller's (1810-1850) Conversations, key to Transcendentalism, and was the first woman publisher in Boston.

Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911), the first woman to study at MIT, pioneered sanitary engineering and home economics, establishing the Woman’s Laboratory in 1875.