Anne Biller Clark

Blanche Ames Ames (1878–1969) and Oakes Ames (1874–1950)

History & Biography

“Blanche and Oakes Ames were descendants of elite families of distinction and notoriety. Elizabeth Fideler documents how they used their family experiences to inform their fifty-year marriage and the goals they set for themselves and shared. Blanche was a social reformer who sought woman’s suffrage and birth control; Oakes became an eminent botanist. Blanche illustrated his work with delicate care. Oakes shared his belief in suffrage. Fideler’s work demonstrates that they together lived lives that were well lived.”