About: Eliza R. Sunderland

Eliza R. Sunderland (née , Read; April 19, 1839 – March 3, 1910) was an American writer, educator, lecturer, and women's rights advocate. She wrote much for literary and religious papers and magazines. She was prominent in her own religious denomination, no woman in the country being called upon more often for addresses at local, state and national Unitarian gatherings than she. She was one of the organizers and the first president of the Western Women's Conference. At the Parliament of the World's Religions in Chicago, in 1893, she represented the Unitarian women of American, and gave of one of the most notable addresses of the parliament. She was especially well-fitted to serve as a member of the board of school visitors in Hartford, Connecticut on account of her lifelong interest in sch