Английская Википедия:Hannah Lee Corbin

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Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox person Hannah Ludwell Lee Corbin (February 6, 1728Шаблон:Spaced ndashШаблон:Circa October 7, 1782) was an American women's rights advocate and member of the Lee family in Virginia. A controversial widow in her own time in part for her refusal to marry her paramour (with whom she had children) or conversion from the Church of England to the Baptists, she may today be best known for asking that women be given the right to vote.

Personal life

A member of the politically influential Lee family, Hannah Ludwell Lee was born on February 6, 1728, on her parents' Stratford Hall plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia.[1] Her father was prominent civil servant Thomas Lee and her mother was colonial heiress Hannah Ludwell. The fourth of eleven children, her siblings included Philip Ludwell; Francis Lightfoot and Richard Henry, both of whom signed the United States Declaration of Independence; Thomas Ludwell; diplomat Arthur; alderman; William;[1] and Alice.Шаблон:Sfn In 1747, Hannah Lee married her cousin Gawain Corbin, who had succeeded his father as burgess but died in 1760 from injuries sustained in a horse-riding mishap;Шаблон:Sfn they had one daughter, Martha.Шаблон:Sfn

Following her husband's death, Corbin inherited vast swathes of property, including Шаблон:Convert in Lancaster CountyШаблон:Sfn and Шаблон:Convert in Caroline County, as well as slaves.Шаблон:Sfn She subsequently cohabited with physician Richard Lingan Hall (died 1774),[1] although they never married and she gave their children the Corbin surname, so as to not violate her husband's will, which stipulated that her inheritance would be forfeited if she remarried;Шаблон:Sfn Corbin and Hall had a son, Elisha,Шаблон:Sfn and a daughter, also named Martha.Шаблон:Sfn Formerly an attendee of the Church of England,Шаблон:Sfn Corbin became a member of the Baptist church around 1764, to the disapproval of her siblings.Шаблон:Sfn

Career

In March 1778, Corbin wrote to her brother Richard Henry, complaining about the "male domination in law and politics", while arguing for women's suffrage:Шаблон:Sfn "Why should widows pay taxes when they have no voice in making the laws or in choosing the men who made them?"Шаблон:Sfn In response, he asserted that women were "already possessed of that right".Шаблон:Sfn According to The Virginia Baptist Register, Corbin was the "first Virginia woman to take a stand for women's rights".Шаблон:Sfn

Death and legacy

She died around October 7, 1782.[1]

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Шаблон:Virginia Women in History Шаблон:Richard Henry Lee Шаблон:Authority control

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