Alice Moore Hubbard (June 7, 1861 – May 7, 1915) was a noted American feminist, writer, and, with her husband,

Elbert Hubbard Elbert Green Hubbard (June 19, 1856 – May 7, 1915) was an American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher. Raised in Hudson, Illinois, he had early success as a traveling salesman for the Larkin Soap Company. Hubbard is known best as th ...

was a leading figure in the

Roycroft Roycroft was a reformist community of craft workers and artists which formed part of the Arts and Crafts movement in the United States. Elbert Hubbard founded the community in 1895, in the village of East Aurora, New York, near Buffalo. Parti ...

movement – a branch of the Arts and Crafts Movement in England with which it was contemporary. Moore Hubbard served as the general manager for the collective, along with managing the Roycraft Inn. She was also the principal of Roycroft School for Boys. Born Alice Luann Moore in

Wales, New York Wales is a town in Erie County, New York, United States. The town is one of the "Southtowns" of Erie County by virtue of its position in the southeast part of the county, southeast of Buffalo. As of the 2010 census the town had a population ...

to Welcome Moore and Melinda Bush¹, she was a schoolteacher before meeting her future husband, the married soap salesman and philosopher Elbert Hubbard whom she married in 1904 after a controversial affair in which she bore an illegitimate child, Miriam Elberta Hubbard (1894–1985). On March 3, 1913, Hubbard marched in the first

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. suffragist parade. The couple perished in the sinking of the RMS ''Lusitania'' during the

First World War World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...

while on a voyage to Europe to cover the war and ultimately interview

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of Germany.

Selected works

* ''Justinian and Theodora'', 1906; with Elbert Hubbard * ''Woman's Work'', 1908 * ''Life Lessons'', 1909 * ''The Basis of Marriage'', 1910, includes an interview with Hubbard by

Sophie Irene Loeb Sophie Irene Loeb (July 4, 1876, Rivne, Volhynia, Russian Empire (now part of Ukraine) – January 18, 1929) was an American journalist and social-Social welfare provision, welfare advocate. Biography She was born Sophie Irene Simon. She was a sc ...

* ''The Myth in Marriage'', 1912

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Alice Hubbard's biography at The Lusitania Resource
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