Where in Hartford are there public statues of women that:
- are not in a cemetery?
- are not inside of a church or on church property?
- are not angels, goddesses, archetypes, or symbols?
- are presented solo, not sharing a pedestal with anyone else including their families/children?
Alice Cogswell, depicted at the intersection of Farmington and Asylum Avenues, comes closest.
Please, someone tell me that there is at least one other monument of a female in Hartford that I have overlooked.
Richard
Would the statue of Gov. Ella Grasso in her own little nook at Ct. State Capitol qualify even though there are a lot of old Joes all about?
Linda Pagani
I don’t know if these would count using your criteria, but 1) Ella Grasso, outside, on the state capitol; and 2) inside, at the state capitol, there is a statue of Prudence Crandall next to one of her students ( they are technically not sharing a pedestal). It’s too bad we have to split hairs to increase the count. Nevertheless, she persisted.
Richard
Tim just suggested Prudence Crandall who appears all golden up on a pole at the Old State House.
Brendan
There’s the Lincoln/Stowe statute down by the river, but it’s shared. There’s the Ethel Donague monument thing in Elizabeth Park near the Pond House. Mother Jones gets a quote in the labor monument in Bushnell Park.
Kerri Provost
Shared does not count. I’m not referring to plaques for women or quotes, but actually representations.
The Stowe statue looks like she’s getting mansplained to by Lincoln, so it’s already not a favorite.