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Georgiana Bruce Kirby Georgiana Bruce Kirby 7 December - 27 January was an American teacher and writer noted for her work in women's suffrage in the late 19th century. Georgiana Bruce was born on December 7, , in Bristol, England. At fourteen, she became a governess to an English family, taking her to Paris and then Melbourne, Canada, where she became a school teacher and taught farming fundamentals.

She returned to London in and within a year was working for the American Unitarian minister Ezra Stiles Gannett, who brought her to Boston at the age of twenty. Georgiana joined the Transcendentalist community of Brook Farm at West Roxbury, Massachusetts, with her brother where they lived cooperatively. She studied at the school, ran the nursery, and participated in academic discussions with various Brook Farm literary members and visitors, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Henry Channing, and Margaret Fuller.

These authors and the spirit of transcendentalism had a major influence on her and she began writing during this period. She, however, thought the community had lost its spontaneity and she left to live in New York City. Farnham had been given a piece of land by Isaac Graham. Eliza Farnham had been ridiculed for her plan to bring a large group of single women to California, and eventually decided to travel there alone.

She continued to write fiction and short stories. She kept a journal from to [8].