Download PDF by Marcia Lee Harris: Fanny Bixby Spencer: Long Beach's Inspirational Firebrand

By Marcia Lee Harris

ISBN-10: 1609498755

ISBN-13: 9781609498757

The final daughter born to Jotham Bixby, the "Father of lengthy Beach," Fanny Bixby Spencer (1879-1930) carved her personal singular and kooky course throughout California background. Born to wealth and gear, she selected a boldly self reliant, egalitarian way of life in an age while women's lives have been mostly restricted to domesticity. Fanny served with the lengthy seashore Police division as America's first policewoman. She used to be a founding father of town of Costa Mesa in Orange County. Her humanitarian efforts reached throughout ethnicities and social status. but past her civic accomplishments, Fanny used to be provocative as a poet, artist, pacifist, suffragist, baby recommend, foster mom and humanitarian. Marcia Lee Harris captures this attention-grabbing woman's notable lifestyles, more suitable through Fanny's personal poetry and soulful reflections.

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