Corinne Stubbs Brown

After her graduation, she taught in the public schools of Chicago. Good order and discipline were the rule in her department, and her governing ability led in the time to her appointment as principal, a post which she relinquished after marrying Frank E. Brown, a businessman who was an officer of various enterprises.^[2]

During a quiet period of the domestic life succeeding her marriage, Brown's active mind prepared itself for new fields of thought and research, and she eagerly seized upon social problems. She read, studied and talked with those who had investigated the causes of the inequalities in social position, and of the increasing number of immense fortunes on the one hand and pauperism on the other. For a time, she affiliated with the Single Tax Party, but its methods did not satisfy her as being adequate to effect the social revolution necessary to banish involuntary poverty. After much research, she accepted socialism as the true remedy and Karl Marx as its apostle. Out of this naturally grew her desire to work for the helpless and oppressed, especially among women. She joined the Ladies Federal Labor Union, identifying herself with working women and gaining an insight into their needs. In 1888, a meeting of that society was called to take action on an exposure of the wrongs of factory employees made in a daily paper. The result of the meeting was the organization of the Illinois Women's Alliance to obtain the enforcement and enactment of factory ordinances and of the compulsory education laws. As president of that society, which included delegates from the twenty-eight organizations of women, Brown became widely known. In addition to her work in the Alliance, Brown was connected with the Nationalists, the Queen Isabella Association and other societies, chiefly those having for their object the advancement of women.^[2] She died in 1914.^[3]

• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Logan, Mrs. John A. (1912). The Part Taken by Women in American History (Public domain ed.). Perry-Nalle publishing Company. p. 593.
• This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Willard, Frances Elizabeth; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice (1893). A Woman of the Century: Fourteen Hundred-seventy Biographical Sketches Accompanied by Portraits of Leading American Women in All Walks of Life (Public domain ed.). Moulton. p. 126.

• Iversen, Joan Smyth (21 January 2014). The Antipolygamy Controversy in U.S. Women's Movements, 1880-1925: A Debate on the American Home. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-135-59465-7.