Nina
Evans,
the daughter of a superintendent of schools, was born in Auburn, Kansas,
in 1872. Attended Concoran School of Art and Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts. A member of the National Women's
Party, she was the main contributor of cartoons to The
Suffragist.
Nina married an English banker, Charles Allender. He deserted her
and it later emerged that he had left England to avoid a prison sentence
for embezzlement and forgery. Nina Evans Allender died in 1957.
Nina Allender, The Wise Women of the West Come
Bearing Gifts (The
Suffragist, 18th December, 1915)
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