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Paula O. Jakobi (1870 – July 12, 1960) was an American suffragist and playwright. ==Career and activism== Jakobi was a suffrage leader in New York City, affiliated with the National Woman's Party. She organized an event at Cooper Union in 1914, where Lincoln Steffens, Zona Gale, Edna Ferber and many other pro-suffrage authors gave readings and sold autographed books for the cause.〔("Literary Lights are Lined Up for Votes," ''New York Tribune'' (January 11, 1914): 9. )〕〔("Suffragists Told to Use Dynamite," ''New York Tribune'' (January 13, 1914): 4. )〕 Jakobi studied prison reform at the Massachusetts women's reformatory in Framingham, and wrote with urgency the lives of destitute women.〔(Paula Jakobi, "The Lodging-House," ''The Outlook'' (April 21, 1915): 936-938. )〕 She was also, for three years, the opera critic for a New York newspaper.〔("Contributors to the November Forum," ''The Forum'' 54(1915): 771. )〕 Jakobi was a member of Heterodoxy, a feminist club based in Greenwich Village. She and Heterodoxy founder Marie Jenney Howe wrote a satirical one-act play, ''Telling the Truth at the White House'' (1917), based on suffrage protests in Washington D. C.〔(Mary Chapman and Angela Mills, eds., ''Treacherous Texts: U. S. Suffrage Literature 1846-1946'' (Rutgers University Press 2011): 275. ) ISBN 0813549590〕 A few months after the play was published, Jakobi was arrested in November 1917 while protesting at the White House; she was sentenced to thirty days at Occoquan Workhouse. While at Occoquan, she refused food, and was force fed by prison officials.〔(Noelia Hernando Real, "A Luncheon for Suffrage: Theatrical Contributions of Heterodoxy to the Enfranchisement of the American Woman," ''Revista de Estudios Norteamericanos'' 15(2012): 83. )〕 She described the experience in stark terms that were quoted in suffrage literature of the time, and for decades after:
Jakobi wrote other short plays, including ''The President'' (1921), ''Poet of His People'' (1917), ''Donna Juanna'' (with Marie Jenney Howe, 1917), ''The Dragon's Tooth'' (1917), ''Chinese Lily'' (1915, set in a women's prison), and ''And Ye Gave Me a Stone'' (1915).〔(Paula Jakobi, "Chinese Lily," ''The Forum'' 54(November 1915): 551-566. )〕〔(Paula Jakobi, "And Ye Gave Me a Stone," ''The Outlook'' (1915): 151-153. )〕 When she was in her eighties, Jakobi wrote a new play ''The Adamses'' (1952), about share-croppers, which was produced by the Hedgerow Theatre near Philadelphia.〔("Hedgerow Theater Features Negro Cast," ''Jet'' (April 3, 1952): 64. )〕 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「Paula O. Jakobi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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