Alyse Gregory

Who was Alyse Gregory?

Alyse Gregory was an American suffragist and writer.

Her father, James G. Gregory, was a doctor in Nowalk. She showed musical talent at an early age, was sent to Paris, France, to receive a musical education when she was fifteen years old, and continued her study of music on her return to the United States. She was invited by Mrs. Catherine Fiske, a famous concert singer, to return to Paris and live with her and be trained as a professional singer. She remained for a year in Paris with Mrs Fiske.

She was drawn gradually into public movements by her interest in social justice after returning to her home country, and decided to give up her singing ambitions. She became involved in local politics and the women's suffrage movement, for which she was a fearless public speaker. Gregory decided to start a women's suffrage club in Connecticut ; as she explains in her autobigraphical book The Day Is Gone, its first meeting brought together herself and five other women. She later worked as assistant state organizer for the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association, when that State held a referendum on woman suffrage in 1915, and was active for the cause in the State of New York.