Margaret Pearmain Welch (1893-1984): Proper Bostonian, Activist, Pacifist, Reformer, Preservationist

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In a bygone era when twentieth-century Proper Bostonians mixed Beacon Hill formalities with countryside pleasures, Margaret Pearmain Welch (1893-1984) defied the mores of her social set and got away with it. She used to be the epitome of the whole lot expected and much that used to be scandalous. Referred to as a debutante, dancer, world traveler, and hostess, she used to be also an indefatigable activist, author, lecturer, lobbyist, fundraiser, and opinion shaper–grande dame in addition to proverbial little old lady in combat boots (footwear more appropriate to war of words than tennis shoes). A descendant of seventeenth-century dissenter Anne Hutchinson and just as independent, she embraced Quaker ideals of religious tolerance, conscientious objection, and civil liberties, in addition to worship without the good thing about clergy. Margaret used to be the quintessential socialite who established Waltz Evenings in her Louisburg Square drawing room and in addition the beauty whose marriages and divorces caused ostracism. On the same time, she worked tirelessly on women’s suffrage, reproductive rights, world peace, environmental protection, monetary reform, land conservation, and more. As the indomitable matriarch of an extended circle of relatives and chronicler of its history, her efforts at self-fashioning produced a unique persona, blending insistence on proprieties with a keen awareness of twentieth-century social, cultural, political, and economic shifts.

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