Mary Ware Dennett: An Influential Role Model

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Mary Ware Dennett was born on April 4 1872, in Worcester Massachusetts (Englehart,1989). Her parents names were George Whitefield and Livonia Coffin (Ames) Ware (Englehart,1989). Mary graduated from a all girls school called Miss Capen's in Northampton (The editors of encyclopedia, ND). She taught designs and decoration at the Drexel institute in Philadelphia from 1894 to 1897 (Englehart,1989). After divorcing her husband in 1912, Ware moved to New York and raised her two sons alone as a single mother (Elizabeth,2015).
Mary Ware Dennett was famous for many things like a Suffragist, Pacifist,artisan, and advocate of birth control and sex education (Englehart,1984). In 1915 she created an organization about national birth control and it was the first in the U.S to create a organization about this …show more content…

Mary did a lot of things that women wouldn't really do at those times, like becoming a educator about sex and birth control, and creating a big organization. Mary was a good leader because she was a very strong women. She knew that if she worked hard she can get things done on time and she can gain knowledge of anything and everything. She believed in women's rights. She was also an American women's right activist (Englehart,2013). The only mistake that Mary made was the lack of support she gave to people thought by a person named Sanger. Sanger thought she was giving a lack of support for her and Mary's failure to cede leadership of the birth control movement. ( NA,ND) < What.com
Mary had many qualities most of them were good qualities. She was always very organize. she also had a good memory of things (Na,Nd). < what,come Mary Dennett loved helping people. Mary was always a positive person. She made an essay on sex as a natural and joyful part of life, which was published originally in the Medical Review of Reviews (American reformer, Nd) A lot of people read her book called “Sex Side Of

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