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Miss Rose Standish Nichols (1872-1960) Perhaps even more astonishing than her splendid home is the story of Miss Nichols herself. Born in 1872, she was an author, a suffragette, a lifelong pacifist, and a women's rights activist at a time when women were expected to marry and have children. Miss Nichols chose to do neither, instead supporting herself as a landscape gardener and, in 1915, helping found the Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom. A multifaceted woman, she was as accomplished at woodworking as she was at needlework (and the Museum has fine examples of both of these talents).     Copyright © 2004-2007. By Nichols House Museum, Inc. All Rights Reserved.