Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson (1825-1911) began her life as a mill operative in Lowell, Massachusetts and died a respected author and woman's suffrage advocate. She worked her way into the history books not only by making history, but also by recording it. In 1858, Robinson and her husband settled in Malden, Massachusetts, one of forty-five communities within the Freedom's Way National Heritage Area, where she spent the rest of her life. Hear her story in this episode of Heritage Stories: Visionaries & Experimenters.


Heritage Stories is an exciting multi-year project of the Freedom’s Way Heritage National Heritage Area that uses state-of-the-art media to share the stories of the visionaries and experimenters that lived within its boundaries with the widest possible audience. During 2020, Freedom's Way is commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Women's Right to Vote through a year-long thematic focus on the people, places and objects from throughout the Heritage Area that are associated with stories of the 19th Amendment, civics, and women’s history.

Freedom's Way National Heritage Area is one of 55 National Heritage Areas in the United States. We work in partnership with the National Park Service and hundreds of community partner organizations to preserve and promote the regional identity of 45 communities in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Learn more about our work at FreedomsWay.org

Freedom's Way wishes to thank the following individuals and organizations for their support and participation in this production:


Research - Jacob M. Boucher; Allison Horrocks, PhD, Lowell National Historical Park
Recording Engineer & Sound Editor - Dan Thibeault, Fast Twitch Media
Script - Jacob M. Boucher; Patrice Todisco, Freedom’s Way
Narrator - Chuck Arning, Public Historian
Graphic Design - Richard Gioiosa, Gioiosa Design
Editors - Allison Horrocks, PhD; Patrice Todisco & Linda Bowie, Freedom’s Way
Production - Jacob M. Boucher
Technical Support - Desiree Demski-Hamelin, Freedom's Way
Producer - Patrice Todisco


Images provided courtesy of Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson and Harriette Lucy Robinson Shattuck Papers, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University; Lowell National Historical Park; and University of Massachusetts Lowell, Center for Lowell History.

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