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The Knoxville Woman's Building was home to a number of clubs and organizations. The most prominent of these was the Ossoli Circle.
All images on this page courtesy of the Ossoli Circle
"The oldest Federated Women's Club in the South"
"The oldest Federated Women's Club in the South"
Founded in 1885 by noted equality and Women's Suffrage advocate Lizzie Crozier French, the Ossoli Circle played a key role in both the fundraising effort and day to day operation of the Knoxville Woman's Building.
Lizzie Crozier French
Lizzie Crozier French
According to the Ossoli Circle, "While studying in New York, Mrs. Lizzie Crozier French visited the Sorosis Woman’s Club, which was organized as a literary and book study club in 1868. This visit inspired her to organize a literary or reading club in Knoxville that was similar to the Sorosis Club and invited 25 ladies together for this purpose on Friday afternoon, November 20, 1885."
The Tennessee Woman Suffrage Memorial
The Tennessee Woman Suffrage Memorial
Located on Market Square in Knoxville, this statue commemorates the contributions to the Woman's Suffrage movement by Elizabeth Avery Meriwether of Memphis (left), Lizzie Crozier French of Knoxville (center), and Anne Dallas Dudley of Nashville (right).
Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Margaret Fuller was one of the foremost woman writers, journalists, editors, translators, and women's rights advocates of the 19th century. She was the author of the seminal early feminist text Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1843), a notable transcendentalist, and the first female war correspondent.
The Ossoli Club honors her as their namesake.
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