Inez Haynes Gillmore

Inez Haynes was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1873, the daughter of Gideon and Emma Jane (Hopkins) Haynes. Her parents, who were from Boston, returned to the U.S. during her childhood and she was raised in Boston. In 1897 she married her first husband, Rufus Hamilton Gillmore, a newspaperman who supported her feminism. While at Radcliffe (1897-1900), she became involved in the women's suffrage movement. Her first novel, June Jeopardy, was published in 1908. Her first marriage ended …