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Later Life and Death
Isabella Beecher Hooker was a life-long practitioner of spiritualism, the medium of contacting life after death prevalent in the late nineteenth century. Hooker was at the side of her sister Harriet Beecher Stowe when she died at her Hartford home in 1896. This was followed by the death of her John, who she called her "lover husband" in 1901, after which she continued spirit writing in which conversation was channeled from dead persons. Hooker was crippled by a stroke on January 13, 1907, and died twelve days later. While she died more than a decade before the nineteenth amendment was ratified, her participation in the women's movement saw it transformed from a fringe group to the respectable lobby that succeeded in 1920. The practice of spiritualism was part of the work of suffragettes...Within her native state of Connecticut Isabella Hooker contributed primary in her advocacy for women's property rights, which passed into law in 1877.