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Blanche Ames Ames (1878–1969) was an artist, political activist, inventor, writer, and prominent supporter of women's suffrage and birth control. ==Personal life== Born Blanche Ames in Lowell, Massachusetts, Ames was the daughter of Civil War General and Mississippi Governor Adelbert Ames and Blanche Butler Ames.〔Mass. Dept. of Conservation and Recreation, ("Blanche Ames Ames" ) (last visited 2010/05/04.〕 She was the sister of Adelbert Ames Jr., a prominent scientist. Ames attended the Rogers Hall School in Lowell.〔(Summary, Ames Family Papers, 1812-2008 ), Sophia Smith Collection, Five College Archives and Manuscript Collections.〕 She was later one of few women of her time to attend college,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dcr/massparks/region-south/borderland-park-blanche-ames-ames.html )〕 earning a B.A. in Art History and a diploma in Studio Art from Smith College in 1899.〔 She was the president of her graduating class.〔 In 1900 she married Harvard University botany professor Oakes Ames (no relation) and took the married name Blanche Ames Ames. The Ameses had four children: Pauline (born 1901), Oliver (born 1903), Amyas (born 1906), and Evelyn (born 1910).〔 Pauline grew up to write many books about her family, including "Oakes Ames, Jottings of a Harvard Botanist" (1979), and "The Plimpton Papers, Law and Diplomacy" (1985). One of Ames' grandchildren was George Ames Plimpton, famed sportswriter.〔 The Ames estate in North Easton, Massachusetts, called Borderland, was designed by Ames herself in the early 1900s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dcr/massparks/region-south/borderland-state-park.html )〕 It is now Borderland State Park. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Blanche Ames Ames」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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